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Language Classification by Numbers
April McMahon and Robert McMahon
284 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-927901-2
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Hardback
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24 November 2005
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- Approachable style
- Reveals startling results by applying new techniques to old data
- Deals with a wide range of languages, including Indo-European and South American languages
- Authors combine the expertise of historical linguistics and genetics
- Broad disciplinary range including language, genetics, archaeology, computer simulation, quantitative methods
- New perspectives on language contact and language change
- Will be used as a textbook in comparative linguistics
This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new techniques applied to old data can produce convincing results. It will be of great practical interest to all those concerned with the classification and diffusion of languages in fields such as comparative linguistics, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology.Readership: Scholars and advanced students of historical linguistics,
language contact and change, and the classification of languages, including linguists, archaeologists, population geneticists, and anthopologists. Plus dedicated general readers interested in language families and language change.
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April McMahon, University of Edinburgh, and Robert McMahon, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
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"...this is a great book for raising questions." - Claire Bowern, Linguistic Typology "A gentle introduction... in which they address many of the fundamental questions concerning the application of quantitative and computational techniques, including phylogenetics, to questions in historical linguistics." - John Nerbonne, Linguistic Typology
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1: How do Linguists Classify Languages?
2: Lexicostatistics
3: Tree-Based Quantitative Approaches - Computational Cladistics
4: Tree-Based Quantitative Approaches: Sublists
5: Correlations Between Genetic and Linguistic Data
6: Climbing Down from the Trees: Network Models
7: Dating
8: Quantitative Methods Beyond the Lexicon
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