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Rejoinder to Malcolm Ross's Squib
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 42, Number 2, December 2003
- pp. 511-513
- 10.1353/ol.2003.0024
- Article
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Typological features may be used in an impressionistic bottom-up approach to characterizing and formulating hypotheses on the genetic affiliation of an unknown language in a contact zone—while leaving the proof/disproof of genetic classification and reconstruction to other, generally accepted types of evidence, such as basic cognate sets and cognate paradigms.