Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola
[Not in series, 211] 2017. x, 414 pp.
Finn Borchsenius
List of John Benjamins publications for which Finn Borchsenius plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017 Chapter 4. Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contact Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 59–78 | Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of the phylogenetic models used in this book. In the introduction, we present the aims and limitations of the chapter and clarify some basic concepts. After presenting the steps of linguistic phylogenetic analyses, we proceed to explain the different data types… read more
2017 Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 385–388 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 35–58 | Chapter
The main goal of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the parallels and commonalities that exist between the fields of biology and linguistics. Researchers from both fields faced similar problems when seeking to account for the descent and diversification of related entities (species,… read more