Typology, areality, and diffusion

Mark Donohue*, Søren Wichmann, Mihai Albu

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    Abstract

    Dunn et al. (2007) state that their typological comparisons do not demonstrate genealogical relatedness in the usual sense, but that the technique does accurately recapitulate trees established by the comparative method. We demonstrate that the signal picked up by their method is areal, rather than genealogical, and suggest that the method, when tested on known language families, will also show a high sensitivity to the effect of diffusion.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)223-232
    Number of pages10
    JournalOceanic Linguistics
    Volume47
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2008

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