Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity
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Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh(46 Benjamins Current Topics)

Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh(46 Benjamins Current Topics)


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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).

Table of Contents:
1. Articles / Aufsatze; 2. Swadesh's life and place in linguistics (by Grant, Anthony P.); 3. A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis (by Hammarstrom, Harald); 4. Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates? (by Holman, Eric W.); 5. Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary (by Tadmor, Uri); 6. Homelands of the world's language families: A quantitative approach (by Wichmann, Soren); 7. On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies (by Grant, Anthony P.); 8. Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of 'word list' comparisons (by Heggarty, Paul); 9. Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh's influence lives on here too (by Sullivan, Jennifer); 10. A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction (by Tria, Francesca); 11. Index; 12. Author index; 13. Index of languages and language groups; 14. Subject index

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This collection is an important contribution to quantitative methods to linguistic diversity.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789027202659
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Series Title: 46 Benjamins Current Topics
  • Weight: 470 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9027202656
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
  • Width: 164 mm


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