Linguistic Subgrouping and Lexicostatistics (Janua Linguarum. Series Minor, 175)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE 1.REVIEW OF OTTO CH. DAHL, MALGACHE ET MAANJAN: UNE COMPARAISON LINGUISTIQUE 2.LANGUAGE DISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION THEORY 3.LEXICOSTATISTICS SO FAR 4.THE LEXICOSTATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE MALAYOPOLYNESIAN LANGUAGES 5.HIGH-SPEED COMPUTATION OF LEXICOSTATISTICAL INDICES 6.THE LEXICOSTATISTICALLY DETERMINED RELATIONSHIP OF A LANGUAGE GROUP 7.LEXICOSTATISTICALLY DETERMINED BORROWING AND TABOO 8.ON THE VALIDITY OF COMPARATIVE LEXICOSTATISTICS 9.LEXICOSTATISTICS IN COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS 10.AUSTRONESIAN LEXICOSTATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION 11.LANGUAGE DIVERGENCE AND ESTIMATED WORD RETENTION RATE 12.MARANAO AND TAGALIC: QUALITATIVE CONFIRMATION OF A SUBGROUPING HYPOTHESIS 13.THE RATE OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE APPENDIX – THE SWADESH 200-WQRD BASIC VOCABULARY LIST INDEX By Isidore Dyen. -- Includes Bibliographical References And Index.