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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth-century langue des signes française, a conception that is apparent in his ...
Justin M. Power
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HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

, 1967
Nicholas C. Bodman
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Tolkien and Comparative Historical Linguistics

RiCognizioni, 2022
It is a well-known fact that J.R.R. Tolkien’s training as a philologist had a very strong impact on his work as a creator of languages. This paper aims to identify the influence of Tolkien’s academic background in the field of linguistic studies on the ...
Francesco Dedè
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Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Historical linguistics is the study of language change and stability, of the history of individual languages, and of the relatedness between languages. In spite of numerous acknowledgements, the adoption of quantitative methods in historical linguistics ...
Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset
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Sprachgeschichte und dimensionale Sprachbetrachtung. Überlegungen zu den ungarischen sprachgeschichtlichen Forschungen im 21. Jahrhundert; pp. 284-290 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2012
Historical Linguistics and the Dimensional Language Approach. Notes on 21st-Century Research on the History of the Hungarian Language. In this short essay — based partially on the present state of Hungarian historical ­linguistic research — I ...
Juhász Dezső
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Word prediction in computational historical linguistics

Journal of Language Modelling, 2021
In this paper, we investigate how the prediction paradigm from machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be put to use in computational historical linguistics. We propose word prediction as an intermediate task, where the forms of unseen
Peter Dekker, Willem Zuidema
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Automated identification of borrowings in multilingual wordlists [version 3; peer review: 4 approved]

Open Research Europe, 2022
Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
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Afrikaans uit en van Europa: Deel een van die storie van Afrikaans

Literator, 2018
No abstract available.
Johanita Kirsten
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Computational historical linguistics [PDF]

Theoretical Linguistics, 2019
AbstractComputational approaches to historical linguistics have been proposed for half a century. Within the last decade, this line of research has received a major boost, owing both to the transfer of ideas and software from computational biology and to the release of several large electronic data resources suitable for systematic comparative work. In
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Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2022
Traditionally, genealogical relationships between languages are established on the basis of phonetic and lexical data. The question whether genealogical relationships among languages can be defined based on grammatical data remains unanswered.
Vladimir N. Polyakov, Elena A. Makarova, Valery D. Solovyev   +2 more
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