A full-scale test of the Language Farming Dispersal Hypothesis

Diachronica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 197-213

  Hammarström, Harald ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Hunting and gathering; Isolates; Language families; Language Farming Dispersal Hypothesis; Large families; Small families

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958493830     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.27.2.02ham     Document Type: Article

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