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Special Issue. Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh. Soren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant (Eds.)

• Swadesh's life and place in linguistics - Grant A.P. p. 191-196
• A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis - Hammarström H. p. 197-213
• Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates ? - Holman E.W. p. 214-225
• Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary - Tadmor U., Haspelmath M., Taylor B. p. 226-246
• Homelands of the world's language familles: A quantitative approach - Wichmann S., Müller A., Velupillai V. p. 247-276
• On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies - Grant A.P. p. 277-300
• Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of ‘word list' comparisons - Heggarty P. p. 301-324
• Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh's influence lives on here too - Sullivan J., McMahon A. p. 325-340
• A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction - Tria F., Caglioti E., Loreto V., Pagnani A. p. 341-358