Cladistic analysis of Bantu languages: A new tree based on combined lexical and grammatical data

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 189-194

  Rexová, Kateřina ^a   Bastin, Yvonne ^b   Frynta, Daniel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RAINFOREST;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAMMAR; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RAIN FOREST;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645567296     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0088-z     Document Type: Article

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