Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 82, Part 5)

by Isidore Dyen and Paul Black

The lexicostatistical method is frequently used to gain information about family trees of languages which are not accessible in study by more traditional methods. The first & major purpose of this work is to validate the lexicostatistical method by presenting the classification it yields for the Indoeuropean family, & comparing that classification with the traditional one. If the classification it yields had differed greatly from the generally accepted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698250
• ISBN13: 9780871698254
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.