Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology

International Journal of American Linguistics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 445-489

  Babel, Molly ^a   Garrett, Andrew ^b   Houser, Michael J ^c   Toosarvandani, Maziar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialectology; Diffusion; Numic; Phylogeny; Subgrouping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888580252     PISSN: 00207071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671772     Document Type: Article

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