Greenbergian universals, diachrony, and statistical analyses

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 433-453

  Croft, William ^a   Bhattacharya, Tanmoy ^b   Kleinschmidt, Dave ^c   Smith, D Eric ^d   Jaeger, T Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84863337942     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.029     Document Type: Article

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