How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research

Diachronica

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 373-404

  Wichmann, Søren ^a,b   Saunders, Arpiar ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Diachronic typology; Maximum parsimony; Native american languages; Neighbor net; Neighbor joining; Phylogenetic algorithms; Stability of linguistic features

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949119739     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.24.2.06wic     Document Type: Article

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