Language Classification by Numbers
Robert McMahon author April McMahon author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:24th Nov '05
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- Paperback£65.00(9780199279029)
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.
...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 *
ISBN: 9780199279012
Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
Weight: 667g
284 pages