Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity
Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
Editors
| MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University
| Edge Hill University
Quantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950s, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches. The papers collected here are the work not only of descriptive and historical linguists, but also statisticians, physicists and computer scientists. They demonstrate the application of quantitative methods to the elucidation of linguistic prehistory on an unprecedented world-wide scale, providing cutting-edge insights into issues of the linguistic correlates of subsistence strategies, rates of birth and extinction of languages, lexical borrowability, the identification of language family homelands, the assessment of genealogical relationships, and the development of new phylogenetic methods appropriate for linguistic data.
Originally published in Diachronica 27:2 (2010).
Originally published in Diachronica 27:2 (2010).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 46] 2012. x, 182 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Articles / Aufsätze
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1–6
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7–22
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23–34
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35–55
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57–86
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87–111
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113–137
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139–154
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155–172
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Index
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Author index
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173–175
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Index of languages and language groups
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177–179
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Subject index
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181–182
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“This collection is an important contribution to quantitative methods to linguistic diversity.”
Steve Moran, University of Zurich and University of Marburg, in Studies in Language Vol. 38:1 (2014)
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Subjects
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General