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Structural phylogeny in historical linguistics : methodological explorations applied in Island Melanesia
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- Dunn, Michael (författare)
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Radboud University Nijmegen
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- Levinson, Stephen C. (författare)
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
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- Lindström, Eva (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap
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- Reesink, Ger (författare)
- Radboud University Nijmegen
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- Terrill, Angela (författare)
- Radboud University Nijmegen
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- Linguistic Society of America, 2008
- 2008
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Language. - : Linguistic Society of America. - 0097-8507 .- 1535-0665. ; 84:4, s. 710-759
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- Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of STRUCTURAL FEATURES — abstract phonological and grammatical features apart from their form. The methods are first tested on the closely related Oceanic languages spoken in the same region as the Papuan languages in question. We find that using biological methods on structural features can recapitulate the results of the comparative method tree for the Oceanic languages, thus showing that structural features can be a valid way of extracting linguistic history. Application of the same methods to the otherwise unrelatable Papuan languages is therefore likely to be similarly valid. Because languages that have been in contact for protracted periods may also converge, we outline additional methods for distinguishing convergence from inherited relatedness.
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- linguistics
- historical linguistics
- Papuan languages
- phylogenetics
- Melanesia
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