Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance. Problems in Comparative Linguistics.

extremely rich, competent, and well-edited. (Language,)

... invaluable volume ... the uniformly high quality of the contributions demonstrates that all contributors know whereof they speak ... The geographical range of the contributions is impressive ... The quality of the production is high. (The Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute)

... certainly a book worth acquiring and reading. (Journal of Linguistics)

This book is a pleasure to sample, and will serve as a resource for years to come. The salutary lesson that emerges from every chapter is that diffusion studies are necessarily complementary to genetic studies, and that our methodology for studying various types of contact needs to be extended and refined. (Diachronica)

This book is highly recommended for all those interested in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, language contact and language change ... this book represents a good opportunity to meditate, on the one side, on models of language evolution and, on the other side, on actual phenomena of language change. (LINGUIST List)