Language classification by numbers /
This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new techniques applied to old data ca...
| Основен автор: | McMahon, April M. S. |
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| Други автори: | McMahon, Robert, 1964- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Серия: |
Oxford linguistics.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=192193 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Language classification by numbers. |
Съдържание:
- Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 How do Linguists Classify Languages?; 2 Lexicostatistics; 3 Tree-based Quantitative Approaches: Computational Cladistics; 4 Tree-based Quantitative Approaches: Sublists; 5 Correlations Between Genetic and Linguistic Data; 6 Climbing Down from the Trees: Network Models; 7 Dating; 8 Quantitative Methods Beyond the Lexicon; References; Index.