Introduction published in:
Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model
Edited by Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François and Harald Hammarström
[Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1] 2019
► pp. 1–8

Problems with, and alternatives to,the tree model in historical linguistics

| Australian National University
| LaTTiCe (CNRS; ENS-PSL; Paris 3-USPC) | Australian National University
| Uppsala University
Published online: 02 July 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00005.kal
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