Beautiful Trees on Unstable Ground: Notes on the Data Problem in Lexicostatistics
Hans Geisler, Johann‐Mattis List · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2010
The manuscript was submitted in 2010, and is now still waiting for publication as:Geisler, H. and List, J.-M. (to appear in 201?): Beautiful trees on unstable ground: Notes on the dataproblem in lexicostatistics. In: Hettrich, Heinrich (ed.): Die Ausbreitung des Indogermanischen.Thesen aus Sprachwissenschaft, Archäologie und Genetik, Akten der Arbeitstagung derIndogermanischen Gesellschaft Würzburg, 24.-26. September 2009. Wiesbaden: Reichert.Please note that the content of this paper is outdated (due to the delayed publication). This does notmean that we mistrust our research and our findings, but the reader should note that the world did notstop spinning since 2010, and some of the points we criticize may have been addressed since then.