Stephen Oppenheimer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen Oppenheimer plays a role.

Articles

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Donohue, Mark, Tim Denham and Stephen Oppenheimer 2012 Consensus and the lexicon in historical linguistics: Rejoinder to “Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics” Diachronica 29:4, pp. 538–546 | Article
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Donohue, Mark, Tim Denham and Stephen Oppenheimer 2012 New methodologies for historical linguistics? Calibrating a lexicon-based methodology for diffusion vs. subgrouping Diachronica 29:4, pp. 505–522 | Article
Recent research claims that analysis of lexical cognate classes for a basic wordlist can reproduce linguistic subgroups within the Austronesian family (Gray et al. 2009). The analysis is open to question in two respects. Primarily, the lexically-based classification, primed with pre-established… read more