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ISBN: 1902937333
ISBN-13: 9781902937335
Format: Hardcover, 220pp
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Table of Contents
Ch. 1 Malagasy language as a guide to understanding Malagasy history
11
Ch. 2 Rapid radiation, borrowing and dialect continua in the Bantu
languages 19
Ch. 3 Multilateral comparison and significance testing of the Indo-
Uralic question 33
Ch. 4 Bantu classification, Bantu trees and phylogenetic methods 43
Ch. 5 Quasi-cognates and lexical type shifts : rigorous distance
measures for long-range comparison 57
Ch. 6 Phylogenetic analysis of written traditions 67
Ch. 7 A stochastic model of language evolution that incorporates
homoplasy and borrowing 75
Ch. 8 How old is the Indo-European language family? : illumination or
more moths to the flame? 91
Ch. 9 Radiation and network breaking in Polynesian linguistics 111
Ch. 10 Inference of divergence times as a statistical inverse problem
119
Ch. 11 Evolution of English basic vocabulary within the network of
Germanic languages 131
Ch. 12 Convergence in the formation of Indo-European subgroups :
phylogeny and chronology 139
Ch. 13 Why linguists don't do dates : evidence from Indo-European and
Australian languages 153
Ch. 14 Quantifying uncertainty in a stochastic model of vocabulary
evolution 161
Ch. 15 Estimating rates of lexical replacement on phylogenetic trees
of languages 173
Ch. 16 Interdisciplinary indiscipline? : can phylogenetic methods
meaningfully be applied to language data - and to dating language?
183