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This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories

How are relationships established between the world's languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary linguistics. T

This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different environments with

This book explains the detectionbased approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five

The organization of the lexicon, and especially the relations between groups of lexemes is a strongly debated topic in linguistics. Some authors have insisted o