Genetic linguistics and genetic creolistics

From Genetic Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics: Lessons We Should Not Miss!

Short Note Genetic Linguistics and Genetic Creolistics: a Response to Sarah G. Thomason’s “creoles and Genetic Relationships”

In this note, I use the term creole as in Mufwene (2001) for some offspring of European languages which developed among primarily non-Europeans in Dutch, English, French, and Portuguese plantation settlement colonies of the 17th–19th centuries and have been disfranchised as vernaculars genetically unrelated to their lexifiers. The term pidgin is likewise used for those that developed in trade c...

Typological traits and genetic linguistics

One of the basic principles in establishing a genetic grouping of languages is that typological traits must be excluded from consideration at the initial stage of establishment; only substantive traits (form-meaning pairings) are relevant. Yet typological evidence is still frequently appealed to in recent discussions of the methodology for establishing genetic classifications and in recent prop...

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...

Romani genetic linguistics and genetics: Results, prospects and problems