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Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model
Edited by Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François and Harald Hammarström
[Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1] 2019
► pp. 168–177
Commentary

When the waves meet the trees

A response to Jacques and List

| Australian National University
| LaTTiCe (CNRS; ENS-PSL; Paris 3-USPC) | Australian National University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Two ways of understanding the family-tree model
  • 3.Methodology and goals of Historical Glottometry
    • 3.1Definition and identification of “shared innovations”
    • 3.2Reading diachrony in glottometric diagrams
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 July 2019
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