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Linguistics in applied linguistics : a historical overview
Journal 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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Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics: A study inspired by trees
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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Comparative-Historical Linguistics
, 2013 Historical linguistics is about how and why language changes over time. Comparative linguistics, in the relevant sense, is the study of linguistic relatedness, that is to say, of genetic or ancestral connections and related matters of subgrouping extending to the reconstruction of unattested ancestral languages or proto-languages.
Joseph Salmons, Emily Utz
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Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology [PDF]
, 2015 International ...
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Corpora and historical linguistics Corpora e linguística histórica [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2011 The present article aims to survey and assess the current state of electronic historical corpora and corpus methodology, and attempts to look into possible future developments.
Merja Kytö
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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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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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LFG and historical linguistics
, 2023 This chapter looks at the opportunities and perspectives that LFG offers for the study of language change, surveying existing LFG approaches within historical linguistics and providing examples of sample phenomena. We discuss how reanalysis, a major driver of language change, can be accounted for elegantly within LFG’s parallel architecture thanks to ...
Booth, Hannah, Butt, Miriam
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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 +2 more
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