LINGUIST List 21.4815 Tue Nov 30 2010 TOC: Diachronica 27/2 (2010) Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org> Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Diachronica Vol. 27, No. 2 (2010) Message 1: Diachronica Vol. 27, No. 2 (2010) Date: 28-Nov-2010 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Diachronica Vol. 27, No. 2 (2010) E-mail this message to a friend Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Journal Title: Diachronica Volume Number: 27 Issue Number: 2 Issue Date: 2010 Subtitle: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity. Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh. Main Text: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh Special Issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University / Edge Hill University Diachronica 27:2 2010. v, 168 pp. Table of contents Articles / Aufsätze Swadesh’s life and place in linguistics Anthony P. Grant 191–196 A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis Harald Hammarström 197–213 Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates? Eric W. Holman 214–225 Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary Uri Tadmor, Martin Haspelmath and Bradley Taylor 226–246 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach Søren Wichmann, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai 247–276 On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies Anthony P. Grant 277–300 Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of ‘word list’ comparisons Paul Heggarty 301–324 Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too Jennifer Sullivan and April McMahon 325–340 A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction Francesca Tria, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto and Andrea Pagnani 341–358 Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.