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, 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, archaeology unearths the material vestiges of ancient cultures. Even if both sciences share similar core
Bostoen, Koen
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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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Historical linguistics, linguistics and applied linguistics: a study inspired by trees. [PDF]
, 2011 This innovative perspective on historical linguistics, linguistics, and applied linguistics examines these areas of study with the role of trees in mind.
Arau Ribeiro, María del Carmen
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Internal History versus External History [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to generalize a pair of concepts that are widely used in the history of science, in art history and in historical linguistics – the concept of internal and external history – and to replace the often very ...
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
, 2012 The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
, 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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An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws. [PDF]
, 2011 Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences the sound change accounts for.
Hill, Nathan W.
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Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]
, 2016 Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
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Evolution of the Burmese vowel system [PDF]
, 2012 Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics has relied heavily on the spelling of Burmese and Tibetan words as found in standard modern dictionaries, at the expense of the earliest attested records.
Hill, Nathan W.
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Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]
, 2009 Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics.
Martín Mota, Sidney, Müller, Daniela
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