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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>Bill Croft <<a href="mailto:wcroft@UNM.EDU">wcroft@UNM.EDU</a>> writes:</b></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I think typologists should welcome this effort to marry phylogeny and typology, even if we remain unconvinced of the particular result in this paper.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Dear all</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Another recent paper that uses phylogenetic networks in typology is:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall & Ingo Plag. 2011. </font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Creoles are typologically distinct from noncreoles.<i> Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages</i> 26(1): 5-42.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">The distinctness of creoles among the languages of the world is, I think, obvious to typologists, but it is very</font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">controversial among creolists - one gets the impression that 90 % of creolists believe that creoles are typologically just like any</font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">other natural language. I think we show rather convincingly that creoles ARE a typological grouping, by checking supposed creole</font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">features (quite a few of which are in fact found only in a minority of creoles) against a sample of the languages of the world,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">selecting the morphologically least elaborate language from a set of superphyla. We also used WALS features and added a </font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">sample of creoles. In both case studies, the creoles stand out quite clearly - in fact more so than most genetic or areal groupings. </font></div>
<div align="left" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:150%;text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"> If you are interested in the paper and you don't have access to JPCL, I am happy to send you an electronic offprint at request.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Peter Bakker (<a href="mailto:linpb@hum.au.dk">linpb@hum.au.dk</a>)</font></div>
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