oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/4560
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| Title: | Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Reesink, Ger, Dunn, Michael; 2012-12-20; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4560. | |
| Creator: | Reesink, Ger | |
| Dunn, Michael | ||
| Date (W3CDTF): | 2012-12-20 | |
| Description: | 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. | |
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| Identifier: | 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. | |
| 978-0-9856211-2-4 | ||
| Identifier (URI): | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4560 | |
| Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| Relation: | LD&C Special Publication | |
| Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | |
| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | ||
| Table Of Contents: | reesink.pdf | |
| Type: | Book Chapter | |
| Type (DCMI): | Text | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/4560 | |
| DateStamp: | 2024-08-28 | |
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| Citation: | Reesink, Ger; Dunn, Michael. 2012. University of Hawai'i Press. | |
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