Michael Dunn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Dunn plays a role.
2022 Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1, pp. 4–42 | Article
This paper presents the Uralic Areal Typology Online (UraTyp 1.0), a typological dataset of 35 Uralic languages and a total of 360 features, mainly covering the levels of morphology, syntax, and phonology. The features belong to two different datasets: 195 features’ definitions originate from… read more
2012 Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test Diachronica 29:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
In the absence of comparative method reconstruction, high rate of lexical cognate candidates is often used as evidence for relationships between languages. This paper uses the Oswalt Monte Carlo Shift test (a variant of Oswalt 1970) to explore the statistical basis of the claim that the four… read more
2011 Aslian linguistic prehistory: A case study in computational phylogenetics Diachronica 28:3, pp. 291–323 | Article
This paper analyzes newly collected lexical data from 26 languages of the Aslian subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family using computational phylogenetic methods. We show the most likely topology of the Aslian family tree, discuss rooting and external relationships to other Austroasiatic… read more
2006 Semantic transference: Two preliminary case studies from the Solomon Islands L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 67–85 | Article
