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2025
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.afcc13...
- isbn: 9789027218995
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- doi: 10.1075/tsl.135.01vui
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isolate language family typology macroarea statistical testSujets proches
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Marine Vuillermet et al., « Is there a typological profile of isolates? », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1075/tsl.135.01vui
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Across the linguistic literature, one occasionally encounters claims of typological differences between isolates and non-isolates, but these are often vague, and tend to use isolates as proxies for small community size, huntergatherer societies, and/or socially/geographically isolated languages. We compared the distribution of 89 phonological and morphosyntactic typological features between isolates and non-isolates using a worldwide sample of 215 languages (68 isolates vs. 147 non-isolates), in which we were unable to find a statistically significant distinction. We discuss the relevance of our results for these claims, for the suggested proxy relationships between isolates and other factors, and suggest possible avenues for future research.
