Comments on Jacques Guy's 'Lexicostatistics as Chess'

Paul Black

doi:10.1080/07268600601172975

Comments on Jacques Guy's 'Lexicostatistics as Chess'

Paul Black

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Abstract

As chess is to warfare, lexicostatistics is not an attempt to represent all details of language change, but rather only lexical replacement. Unlike chess lexicostatistics is statistical rather than deterministic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-79
Number of pages	3
Journal	Australian Journal of Linguistics
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07268600601172975
Publication status	Published - 2007

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Comments on Jacques Guy's 'Lexicostatistics as Chess'

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