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Western Linguistics: an historical introduction Western Linguistics: an historical introduction

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2003
Ronaldo de Oliveira Batista
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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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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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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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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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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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