Book Reviews
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April McMahon and Robert McMahon, Language Classification by Numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, xvii + 265 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-927901-2, £ 57.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-927902-0, £ 22.50 (paperback). (John Nerbonne)
April McMahon and Robert McMahon, Language Classification by Numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, xvii + 265 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-927901-2, £ 57.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-927902-0, £ 22.50 (paperback). (Claire Bowern)
Östen Dahl, The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 71.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004, ISBN 978-90-272-3081-2, EUR 115; ISBN 978-1-58811-554-6, US$ 138. (Elena Maslova)
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- Similar Place Avoidance: A statistical universal
- Word order in Austronesian from north to south and west to east
- On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: Observations and computer simulations
- Book Reviews
- Jørgen Rischel, 1934–2007: Linguistic explorer with typological breadth