Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis

Theoretical Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-37

  Croft, William ^a   Poole, Keith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 47249095367     PISSN: 03014428     EISSN: 16134060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/THLI.2008.001     Document Type: Article

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