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Publication details [#57582]

Wichmann, Søren, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira and Adriano O. Sousa. 2013. On the disintegration of (proto-)languages. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (221) : 11–19.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper discusses regularities in the dissolution of (proto-)languages, such as regular splitting rates and linguistic phylogenies evidencing intermediate, objectively identifiable levels (“genera”).