A phylogenetic networks approach to the classification of English-based Atlantic creoles

English World-Wide

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-146

  Daval Markussen, Aymeric ^a   Bakker, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Classification; English based Atlantic creoles; Evolutionary history; Phylogenetic networks; Radicalness; Split decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960095367     PISSN: 01728865     EISSN: 15699730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/eww.32.2.01dav     Document Type: Article

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