LEADER 05704nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910818143703321 005 20230802012910.0 010 $a1-283-59432-3 010 $a9786613906779 010 $a90-272-7335-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000093330 035 $a(EBL)1016482 035 $a(OCoLC)811503767 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711743 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12272967 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711743 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10722140 035 $a(PQKB)11208724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1016482 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1016482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597689 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL390677 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000093330 100 $a20120709d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aQuantitative approaches to linguistic diversity$b[electronic resource] $ecommemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh /$fedited by Søren Wichmann, Anthony P. Grant 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 0 $aBenjamins current topics ;$vv.46 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-0265-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aQuantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Swadesh's life and place in linguistics; References; A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis; 1. Introduction; 2. Language families and data; 2.1. Language families; 2.2 Cardinal size; 2.3 Geospatial size; 2.4 Subsistence type; 3. Explananda on language family sizes; 4. The language farming dispersal hypothesis; 4.1 Previous investigations of farming expansions; 4.2 Definition of language farming dispersal hypothesis; 5. Farming and cardinal size 327 $a6. Farming and east-west spreads 7. Discussion and conclusions; References; Appendix. The Language Families of the World: A Critical Synopsis; Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates?; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical prediction; 3. Tests in published language trees; 4. Tests in ASJP language trees; 5. Properties of languages; 6. Different regions and families; 7. Discussion; References; Appendix 1. Description of LDND; Appendix 2. Imbalance score (Iw) and number of bifurcating nodes (N) for trees constructed by each method for individual families 327 $aBorrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary 1. Assessing degrees of lexical borrowability; 2. The notion of basic vocabulary and the Swadesh 100 list; 3. The Loanword Typology project; 4. Differences among semantic word classes and semantic fields; 4.1 Nouns vs. verbs (and adjectives); 4.2 Content words vs. function words; 4.3 Differences among semantic fields; 5. The most borrowing-resistant meanings; 5.1 Meanings with the fewest (probable or clear) loanword counterparts; 6. Representation; 7. Analyzability; 8. Age; 9. The Leipzig-Jakarta list of basic vocabulary 327 $a10. The Leipzig-Jakarta list vs. the Swadesh 100 list and three other stability lists 11. Conclusions; References; Homelands of the world's language families; 0. Introduction; 1. The tool; 2. The linguistic distance measure; 3. The sample; 4. Producing maps for homelands; 5. Results; 6. Discussion; 6.1 Africa; 6.2 Eurasia; 6.3 New Guinea; 6.4 North America; 6.5 Middle and Northern South America; 6.6 Central South America; 7. Some generalizations; 8. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. Maps for all language families sampled; Appendix B. Languages and dialects represented in the study 327 $aOn using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history 1. Introduction; 2. Constructing a cognacy grid; 3. Vertical and horizontal lexicostatistics; 4. A case study: The Caddoan languages; 5. Further case studies; 5.1 Cognacy, lexical diversity and uniqueness in two Uto-Aztecan cases; 5.2 Subgrouping, borrowing and backmutation: the case of Latin and Romance; 5.3 Borrowing, shared innovations and shared borrowings: lexicostatistics in Chamic and Malayic; 6. Conclusions: Where qualitative lexicostatistics can take us; References; Beyond lexicostatistics 327 $a1. Swadesh's legacy: Clarifying the ambiguities 330 $aQuantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950's, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches. The papers collected here are the work not only of descriptive and historical linguists, but also statisticians, physicists and computer scientists. 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