Quantitative approaches to linguistic diversity: commemorating the centenary of the birth of morris swadesh
Auteur :
Wichmann, Soren
ISBN :
9789027202659
Date de publication :
15 sept. 2012
Dimensions :
24,5 x 16,4 cm
Poids :
470 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Bonaire, Saba
Demonstrates the application of quantitative methods to the elucidation of linguistic prehistory on an world-wide scale, providing insights into issues of the linguistic correlates of subsistence strategies, rates of birth and extinction of languages, lexical borrowability, and development of phylogenetic methods appropriate for linguistic data.