Ancestry-constrained phylogeneticanalysis supports the indo-european steppe hypothesis

Language

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 194-244

  Chang, Will ^a   Cathcart, Chundra ^a   Hall, David ^a   Garrett, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Indo European chronology; Indo European dispersal; Lexical change; Linguistic phylogenetics; Steppe hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925845101     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2015.0005     Document Type: Article

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