Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings

• Main Author: Prokić, Jelena (auth)
• Other Authors: Moran, Steven (auth), Saxena, Anju (Editor), Borin, Lars (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: linguistics; linguistic differences
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the genealogical related-ness of languages. More recent quantitative approaches attempt t...