A group for those interested in linguistics
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Approaches to Rule-Based Phonological Reconstruction in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 days, 14 hours ago
The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computational Historical Linguistics in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days ago
In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]
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Annika Tjuka deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. Volume 5 in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 weeks ago
The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Lenguaje sin evolución in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]
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Maurizio Brancaleoni deposited Thomas Wolfe – Un estratto da ‘Passage to England: A Selection’ (Traduzione di Maurizio Brancaleoni) in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) nasce ad Asheville, North Carolina. Mentre studia drammaturgia ad Harvard scrive per il teatro, ma il successo arriva con il romanzo autobiografico ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ (1929), seguito da ‘Of Time and the River’ (1935) e dai postumi ‘The Web and the Rock’ (1939) e ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ (1940). ‘Passage to England: A…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Formal and quantitative approaches to historical language comparison in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Lecture, given at the Fifth Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (Università di Pavia, 2022-09-05/09)
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Dr Mark Perkins deposited Approaches to Text Analysis in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Text Analysis is a broad term that covers many approaches and technologies. Those initially stemming from the academic sphere have come to enter the commercial, and today there is a wide interplay between the two. A further dichotomy is that between natural language and computational approaches. Over time, approaches have come to draw upon each…[Read more]
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Dr Mark Perkins deposited Aspects of Discourse Stream Analysis in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
The huge proliferation of textual (and other data) in digital and organisational sources has led to new techniques of text analysis. The potential thereby unleashed may be underpinned by further theoretical
developments to the theory of Discourse Stream Analysis (DSA) as presented here. These include the notion of change in the discourse stream…[Read more] -
Dr Mark Perkins deposited Linguistics and Classical Theories of Rhetoric: Connections and Continuity in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
The Connections between ancient approaches to rhetoric, as found in Plato and Aristotle, the prime ancient theorists of rhetoric, and modern linguistic approaches to register and genre theory, as in Hallidayan linguistics, show continuity of thought across the centuries. They also suggest that there may be such things as universal rhetorical…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
A review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle English.
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Maurizio Brancaleoni deposited Bizzarrie fantascientifiche nelle Note di Carlo Dossi in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Note Azzurre (Blue Notes), arguably the most representative work of the Scapigliato Carlo Dossi, have always
been the focus of attention of scholars and enthusiasts. A few notes, however, have been studied little or not at
all: these fragments revolve around extremely modern matters and obsessions, such as the impact of technology
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Astrid Menz deposited Gagauz : Gagauzca in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
Subject of this article is the Gagauz language, spoken by about 200,000 speakers, mainly in
the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine. Linguistically, it is very close to Turkish but shows
several special features that have developed under the influence of Slavic languages. The
linguistic features of the Gagauz language will be examined and are…[Read more] -
Johann-Mattis List deposited Annotating cognates in phylogenetic studies of South-East Asian languages in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only a few but not all morphemes. While partial cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they are problematic when it comes to…[Read more]
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Justin M. Power deposited Did deaf education and the emergence of American Sign Language trigger the decline of Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language? in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
In discussions of the history of American Sign Language (ASL), a village sign language—Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)—has been identified as a possible contributor to ASL and to its differentiation from French Sign Language (LSF; cf. Groce 1985: 73-74, Lane et al 2011: 76, Poole Nash 2015: 611). On this account, MVSL contributed to ASL t…[Read more]
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Justin M. Power deposited Young children and the emergence of ASL: The age distribution of students at the American School for the Deaf, 1817–1867 in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
Young children are thought to play a unique role in the emergence and evolution of language. In research on language acquisition by a deaf child of late learners of ASL as well as in research on the emergence of new signed languages, young children have shown the ability to impose systematicity on relatively less systematic linguistic input…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Of Word Families and Language Trees: New and Old Metaphors in Studies on Language History in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
For a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Teoría paranoica de la observación mutua in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Spanish Abstract: En su teoría sobre la interacción estratégica, Erving Goffman muestra cómo las dinámicas de control de la información y de la infiltración de informantes en las líneas enemigas no son únicamente una cuestión de espionaje internacional o de servicios secretos. La vida cotidiana, tal como nos la desvela el análisis de Goffman, e…[Read more]
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Mei-Shin Wu deposited Annotating Cognates in Phylogenetic Studies of South-East Asian Languages [version 2] in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only a few but not all morphemes. While partial
cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they
are problematic when it comes to…[Read more] -
Johann-Mattis List deposited Computational Approaches to Historical Language Comparison in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The chapter discusses recently developed computational techniques providing concrete help in addressing various tasks in historical language comparison, focusing specifically on those tasks which are typically subsumed under the framework of the comparative method. These include the proof of relationship, cognate and correspondence detection,…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Más sobre la internalización de la interacción in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
English abstract: Psychological processes internal to the individual, as well as those of a symbolic, discursive or cognitive nature, are built on the basis of social interaction, and—given that social interaction exists prior to individuals, exceeds them in complexity, and forms them—the development of consciousness, and of communicative and sym…[Read more]
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