New methodologies for historical linguistics? Calibrating a lexicon-based methodology for diffusion vs. subgrouping

Diachronica

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 505-522

  Donohue, Mark ^a   Denham, Tim ^b   Oppenheimer, Stephen ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Areality; Austronesian; Computational methods; Historical linguistics; Lexical borrowing; Polynesian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871272083     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.29.4.04don     Document Type: Article

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