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Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics [PDF]
Journal 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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“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.
Johann‐Mattis List +2 more
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Austronesian’s Traces in Sasak: Historical Linguistics Study
ArbitrerThe Sasak language spoken by the Sasak ethnic group in Lombok, Indonesia is one of the many Austronesian languages. As a descendant of Proto-Austronesian (PAN), Sasak is assumed to retain traces of its Austronesian heritage.
Burhanuddin Burhanuddin +2 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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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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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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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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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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