Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography

Language

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-383

  Donohue, Mark ^a   Musgrave, Simon ^a   Whiting, Bronwen ^b   Wichmann, Søren ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Austronesian; Computational methods; Historical linguistics; Papuan; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051620684     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2011.0033     Document Type: Note

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