The origin and evolution of word order

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1113716108MaRDI QIDQ4907481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Murray Gell-Mann, Merritt Ruhlen

Publication date 2 February 2013

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113716108

zbMATH Keywords

comparative linguistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Natural language processing (68T50) Linguistics (91F20)

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