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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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Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics: A study inspired by trees [PDF]
Odisea, 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 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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Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This is the first JSEALS special publication since JSEALS became a University of Hawai‘i Press publication as of January 2017. The goal of JSEALS special publications is to share collections of linguistics articles, such as select papers from conferences
Yukinori Kimoto +4 more
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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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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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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 â based partially on the present state of Hungarian historical Âlinguistic research â I ...
Juhász Dezső
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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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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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