Adding typology to lexicostatistics: A combined approach to language classification

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-181

  Bakker, Dik ^a   Müller, André ^b   Velupillai, Viveka ^c   Wichmann, SØren ^b   Brown, Cecil H ^d   Brown, Pamela ^e   Egorov, Dmitry ^f   Mailhammer, Robert ^g   Grant, Anthony ^h   Holman, Eric W ⁱ  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Kazanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet ^*  (United States)

^f KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^h EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family tree; Inflection; Lexicon; Lexicostatistics; Linguistic areas; Linguistic atlas; Phylogenetic classification; Syntax; Time stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950716323     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2009.009     Document Type: Article

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