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Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics: A study inspired by trees [PDF]

open access: yesOdisea, 2017
: This innovative perspective on historical linguistics, linguistics, and applied linguistics examines these areas of study with the role of trees in mind.
María Del Carmen Arau Ribeiro
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Historical Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]

open access: diamond, 2019
List J-M, Starostin G, Yunfan L. “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship.
Lai, Y., List, J., Starostin, G.
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Vector spaces for historical linguistics : using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony [PDF]

open access: gold, 2014
This paper describes an application of dis- tributional semantics to the study of syn- tactic productivity in diachrony, i.e., the property of grammatical constructions to attract new lexical items over time.
Perek, Florent
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Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017
This is a collection of five select articles on Austronesian historical linguistics from the 13-ICAL (International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics) in Taipei in 2015.
Hsiu-chuan Liao, Editor   +5 more
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Linguistics in applied linguistics : a historical overview

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2002
This paper looks at some of the underlying reasons which might explain the uncertainty surrounding applied linguistics as an academic enquiry. The opening section traces the emergence of the field through its professional associations and publications ...
Tony Harris
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Supplementary Material For "Sequence Comparison In Historical Linguistics"

open access: green, 2014
The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically related words can be identified, and the history of languages can be uncovered.
Johann‐Mattis List
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Tolkien and Comparative Historical Linguistics

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 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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