Sampling and genealogical coverage in WALS

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-119

  Hammarström, Harald ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genealogical classification; Linguistic atlas; Sampling; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950708849     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2009.006     Document Type: Article

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