Language classification by numbers / April McMahon and Robert McMahon.

This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new techniques applied to old data ca...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	McMahon, April M. S.
Other Authors:	McMahon, Robert, 1964-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:	Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:	Language and languages > Classification. Language and languages. Classification.