PARALLELS BETWEEN GENETICS AND LEXICOSTATISTICS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. FOREWORD 5
3. PARTICIPANTS IN THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON GENETIC LEXICOSTATISTICS 7
4. CONTENTS 9
5. THE VALIDITY OF THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY 11
6. SOME RESULTS FROM THE VOCABULARY METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING LANGUAGE TREES 30
7. ESTIMATING TIME SEPARATION FOR LANGUAGES 56
8. PARALLELS BETWEEN GENETICS AND LEXICOSTATISTICS 64
9. THE IMPACT OF LEXICOSTATISTICS ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS 75
10. SUB-CLASSIFICATION IN HAMITO-SEMITIC 85
11. THE LEXICOSTATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE FRENCH-BASED CREOLE LANGUAGES 89
12. GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY AND THE PREHISTORY OF WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA 100
13. LEXICAL DETERMINATION OF SUBGROUPING 108
14. LEXICOSTATISTICS IN THE REGENCY PERIOD 118
15. LEXICOSTATISTICS AND GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (WITH NOTES TOWARD A GENERAL HISTORY) 122