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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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, 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 ...
Bostoen, Koen
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Historical Linguistics and Philippine Hunter-Gatherers
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers, 2020 This paper addresses several topics with reference to Philippine hunter-gatherer groups that are relevant to an understanding of their relationships with non-hunter-gatherer groups and their significance for historical linguistics.
L. A. Reid
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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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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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Between Fact and Fantasy: Early Sources on Oirat Historical Dialectology
Oriental Studies, 2021 The article presents the results of a linguistic analysis of three early sources on Oirat historical dialectology, Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles, completed between 1306 and 1311) and the Mongol chronicles Sir-a tuγuǰi ...
Pavel O. Rykin
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A Historical Reconstruction of Some Pronominal Suffixes in Modern Dialectal Arabic
Languages, 2021 The morphology of the pronominal suffixes in dialectal Arabic are of particular interest for scholars of the history of Arabic for two main reasons. First, multiple dialects attest suffixes that, from a comparative perspective, apparently retain final ...
Phillip W. Stokes
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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 ...
Aunger +51 more
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Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics? [PDF]
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018 We evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms for automatic cognate detection by comparing how useful automatically inferred cognates are for the task of phylogenetic inference compared to classical manually annotated cognate sets.
Taraka Rama +3 more
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Historical linguistics in the Netherlands [PDF]
Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2019 Item does not contain ...
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