Cladistic analysis of languages: Indo-European classification based on lexicostatistical data

Cladistics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 120-127

  Rexová, Kateřina ^a   Frynta, Daniel ^a   Zrzavý, Jan ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; LANGUAGE;

IRANIA;

EID: 0038048901     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.tb00299.x     Document Type: Article

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