Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 321-332

  Atkinson, Quentin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84857002021     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.022     Document Type: Review

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