Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminaries
- 3 Linguistic areas and diffusion
- 4 The family tree model
- 5 Modes of change
- 6 The punctuated equilibrium model
- 7 More on proto-languages
- 8 Recent history
- 9 Today's priorities
- 10 Summary and prospects
- Appendix – where the comparative method discovery procedure fails
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminaries
- 3 Linguistic areas and diffusion
- 4 The family tree model
- 5 Modes of change
- 6 The punctuated equilibrium model
- 7 More on proto-languages
- 8 Recent history
- 9 Today's priorities
- 10 Summary and prospects
- Appendix – where the comparative method discovery procedure fails
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Rise and Fall of Languages , pp. 163 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997