LINGUIST List 21.4815
Tue Nov 30 2010
TOC: Diachronica 27/2 (2010)
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Message 1: Diachronica Vol. 27, No. 2 (2010)
Date: 28-Nov-2010
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Diachronica Vol. 27, No. 2 (2010)
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Publisher: John Benjamins
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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 DiversityCommemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris SwadeshSpecial Issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. GrantMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University / Edge HillUniversity
Diachronica 27:2
2010. v, 168 pp.Table of contents
Articles / Aufsätze
Swadesh’s life and place in linguisticsAnthony P. Grant 191–196
A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesisHarald Hammarström 197–213
Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates?Eric W. Holman 214–225
Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabularyUri Tadmor, Martin Haspelmath and Bradley Taylor 226–246
Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approachSøren Wichmann, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai 247–276
On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Sometechniques and case studiesAnthony P. Grant 277–300
Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of ‘word list’ comparisonsPaul Heggarty 301–324
Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on heretooJennifer Sullivan and April McMahon 325–340
A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstructionFrancesca Tria, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto and Andrea Pagnani 341–358
Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics Historical Linguistics
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