Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings

• Yazar: Prokić, Jelena (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Moran, Steven (auth), Saxena, Anju (Editör), Borin, Lars (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Konular: linguistics; linguistic differences
• Online Erişim: 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...