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<div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal">Dear Peter, </div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal">Our forthcoming paper may be of interest to you. It tests
for isolates having a different typological profile in comparison with
non-isolates at both local and global levels will soon appear in a volume on
isolates co-edited by Salaberri, Krajewska, Santazilia & Zuloaga.</div>
<p class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal">Vuillermet, Marine, David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri,
Kellen P. van Dam, Shelece Easterday & Françoise Rose. To appear. Is there
a typological profile of isolates? In Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz
Santazilia & Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), <i>Investigating
language isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives. </i>Amsterdam &
Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Typological Studies in Language series)</p>
<div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal">Please find the abstract below, and the last (final?) version of the
paper on our academia/researchgate profiles:</div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375792985_Is_there_a_typological_profile_of_isolates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375792985_Is_there_a_typological_profile_of_isolates</a></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/109533156/Is_there_a_typological_profile_of_isolates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/109533156/Is_there_a_typological_profile_of_isolates</a></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal">Across the linguistic literature, one
occasionally encounters claims of typological differences between isolates and
non-isolates, but these are often vague, and tend to use isolates as proxies
for small community size, hunter-gatherer societies, and/or
socially/geographically isolated languages. We compared the distribution of 89
phonological and morphosyntactic typological features between isolates and
non-isolates using a worldwide sample of 215 languages (68 isolates vs 147
non-isolates), in which we were unable to find a statistically significant
distinction. We discuss the relevance of our results for these claims, for the
suggested proxy relationships between isolates and other factors, and suggest
possible avenues for future research.</div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best,</div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp4d439395MsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Marine<br></div>
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