One of the main developments in diachronic typology in the last decade has been the application of powerful statistical tools borrowed from the field of evolutionary biology (Dediu, 2010;Greenhill et al., 2010;Dunn et al., 2011;Maurits and Griffiths, 2014;Greenhill et al., 2017).
we used linear regression with L1 regularization (i.e., lasso).