2.LANGUAGE DISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION THEORY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
3. PREFACE 7
4. 1.REVIEW OF OTTO CH. DAHL, MALGACHE ET MAANJAN: UNE COMPARAISON LINGUISTIQUE 29
5. 2.LANGUAGE DISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION THEORY 50
6. 3.LEXICOSTATISTICS SO FAR 75
7. 4.THE LEXICOSTATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE MALAYOPOLYNESIAN LANGUAGES 91
8. 5.HIGH-SPEED COMPUTATION OF LEXICOSTATISTICAL INDICES 105
9. 6.THE LEXICOSTATISTICALLY DETERMINED RELATIONSHIP OF A LANGUAGE GROUP 112
10. 7.LEXICOSTATISTICALLY DETERMINED BORROWING AND TABOO 128
11. 8.ON THE VALIDITY OF COMPARATIVE LEXICOSTATISTICS 137
12. 9.LEXICOSTATISTICS IN COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS 150
13. 10.AUSTRONESIAN LEXICOSTATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION 161
14. 11.LANGUAGE DIVERGENCE AND ESTIMATED WORD RETENTION RATE 181
15. 12.MARANAO AND TAGALIC: QUALITATIVE CONFIRMATION OF A SUBGROUPING HYPOTHESIS 208
16. 13.THE RATE OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE 223
17. APPENDIX – THE SWADESH 200-WQRD BASIC VOCABULARY LIST 231
18. INDEX 235
19. Backmatter 253