Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography

Donohue, Mark; Musgrave, Simon; Whiting, Bronwen; Wichmann, Soren

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Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography

Date

2011

Authors

Donohue, Mark

Musgrave, Simon

Whiting, Bronwen

Wichmann, Soren

Publisher

Linguistic Society of America

Abstract

Dunn and colleagues (2008) describe and exemplify the use of sophisticated analyses of abstract structural features to reconstruct language histories. The techniques that they use do show some clustering in the groups of languages that they examine; Dunn