Quantifying language dynamics : on the cutting edge of areal and phylogenetic linguistics /

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Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, consti...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Wichmann, Søren, 1964- (Éditeur intellectuel), Good, Jeff (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Sujets:
Linguistics > Research > Methodology.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Areal linguistics.
Linguistique > Recherche > Méthodologie.
Analyse linguistique (Linguistique)
Linguistique géographique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Areal linguistics
Linguistics > Research > Methodology
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Notes on Contributors; Introduction (Wichmann and Good); Exploring Phonological Areality in the Circum-Andean Region Using a Naive Bayes Classifier (Michael, Chang and Stark); Quantifying Geographical Determinants of Large-Scale Distributions of Linguistic Features (Hammarström and Güldemann); Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case (Bentz and Winter); Using Phylogenetic Networks to Model Chinese Dialect History (List, Shijulal, Martin and Geisler).
  • Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights (Jäger)Does Structural-Typological Similarity Affect Borrowability? (Seifart); Author Index; Index of Languages, Dialects, Language Groups, and Families; Subject Index.

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