Editing Lexicostatistics (section)

==History==
Lexicostatistics was developed by [[Morris Swadesh]] in a series of articles in the 1950s, based on earlier ideas.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swadesh |first1=Morris |title=Towards greater accuracy in lexicostatistical dating |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |date=1955 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=121–137|doi=10.1086/464321 |s2cid=144581963 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/464321|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swadesh |first1=Morris |title=Lexicostatistical dating of prehistoric ethnic contacts |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |date=1952 |volume=96 |pages=452–463}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swadesh |first1=Morris |title=Salish internal relationships |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |date=1950 |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=157–167|doi=10.1086/464084 |s2cid=145122561 }}</ref> The concept's first known use was by [[Dumont d'Urville]] in 1834 who compared various "Oceanic" languages and proposed a method for calculating a coefficient of relationship. [[Dell Hymes|Hymes]] (1960) and Embleton (1986) both review the history of lexicostatistics.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hymes |first1=Dell |title=Lexicostatistics so far |journal=Current Anthropology |date=1960 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=3–44|doi=10.1086/200074 |s2cid=144569209 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Embleton |first1=Sheila |title=Statistics in Historical Linguistics |date=1986 |publisher=Bochum}}</ref>