The rise and fall of languages /
History of languages ; rate of linguistics change; family tree model of linguistic diversification.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Preliminaries
- 3. Linguistic areas and diffusion
- 4. The family tree model
- 5. Modes of change
- 6. The punctuated equilibrium model
- 7. More on proto-languages
- 8. Recent history
- 9. Today's priorities
- 10. Summary and prospects
- App. Where the comparative method discovery procedure fails.