Fiona M. Wilson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Fiona M. Wilson plays a role.

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Wilson, Fiona M., Panayiotis A. Pappas and Arne O. Mooers 2019 The role of frequency of use in lexical change: Evidence from Latin and GreekDiachronica 36:4, pp. 584–612 | Article
Based on the number of words per meaning across the Indo-European Swadesh list, Pagel et al. (2007) suggest that frequency of use is a general mechanism of linguistic evolution. We test this claim using within-language change. From the IDS (Key & Comrie 2015) we compiled a comparative word list… read more