Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy

• Egile nagusia: Cysouw, Michael (auth)
• Beste egile batzuk: Auer, Peter (Argitaratzailea), Hilpert, Martin (Argitaratzailea), Stukenbrock, Anja (Argitaratzailea), Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (Argitaratzailea)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Gaiak: linguistics; Dialect, slang & jargon; Discourse analysis; Space; Geolinguistics; Interaction; Cognition
• Sarrera elektronikoa: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel 2008;Cysouw 2011), because individual historical developments cannot be predict...