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March 9: Very remote relations

  1. How far can we reconstruct? A survey of recent controversies.
  2. Illich-Svitych's Nostratic theory.
  3. ``Deep'' structural resemblances as a key to very distant genetic relationships.
  4. Statistical approaches.
  5. Computational modeling of language change. Genetic algorithms.



Paul Kiparsky 2006-01-09