Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history
Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history
dc.contributor.author | Reesink, Ger | |
dc.contributor.author | Dunn, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-20T22:45:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-12-20T22:45:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-12-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | Similarities between languages can be due to 1) homoplasies because of a limited design space, 2) common ancestry, and 3) contact-induced convergence. Typological or structural features cannot prove genealogy, but they can provide historical signals that are due to common ancestry or contact (or both). Following a brief summary of results obtained from the comparison of 160 structural features from 121 languages (Reesink, Singer & Dunn 2009), we discuss some issues related to the relative dependencies of such features: logical entailment, chance resemblance, typological dependency, phylogeny and contact. This discussion focusses on the clustering of languages found in a small sample of 11 Austronesian and 8 Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia, an area known for its high degree of admixture. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
dc.identifier.citation | Reesink, Ger and Michael Dunn. 2012. Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer (eds). 2012. Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century, 34–71. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9856211-2-4 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4560 | |
dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | LD&C Special Publication | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | |
dc.title | Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history | |
dc.type | Book Chapter | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
prism.endingpage | 71 | |
prism.startingpage | 34 |
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