The origin and evolution of word order

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 42, 2011, Pages 17290-17295

  Gell Mann, Murray ^a   Ruhlen, Merritt ^b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD ORDER;

EID: 80054820449     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113716108     Document Type: Article

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