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Publication Date: 1990
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Linguistic Diversity and the First Settlement of the New World.
Nichols, Johanna
Language, v66 n3 p475-521 Sep 1990
Four building blocks of a theory of linguistic diversity are presented here: a classification and measures of diversity, an account of the causes of diversity, measures of rates of differentiation, and means of estimating the age of a linguistic population. (69 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Geography, Land Settlement, Language Typology, Linguistic Theory
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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