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9781107015029 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 15, 2016, cover price $110.00
Product Description: Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundamental questions such as: how to identify and account for areal distributions, when language contact leads to grammatical simplification, whether patterns of morphological borrowing can be predicted, how to deal with contact within phylogenetic models, and what new techniques are most effective for classification of the world s languages...read more
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9789004281318 | Brill Academic Pub, September 8, 2014, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution.
Product Description: This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins...read more
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9780199298495 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 20, 2008, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change.
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9780199228997 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 20, 2008, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change.
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