Commentary on Croft and Poole, Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis.

The article comments on "Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis," by William Croft and Keith T. Poole. The focus is on: the use of semantic mapping in linguistic typology to analyze variations in language; the argument for multidimensional...

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Published in:Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 67 - 74
Main Author: Zwarts, Joost
Format: Editorial
Published: De Gruyter Jan2008
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