In:Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant
[Benjamins Current Topics 46] 2012
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 26 September 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.46.toc
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Table of contents
Articles / Aufsätze
Swadesh’s life and place in linguistics
A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis
Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates?
Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary
Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach
On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies
Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of ‘word list’ comparisons
Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too
A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction
Index
Author index
Index of languages and language groups
Subject index
