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Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics

Author : Mattis List
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110720086
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics by : Mattis List

Download or read book Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics written by Mattis List and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically related words can be identified, and the history of languages can be uncovered. So far, the application of traditional techniques for sequence comparison is very tedious and time-consuming, since scholars have to apply them manually, without computational support. In this study, algorithms from bioinformatics are used to develop computational methods for sequence comparison in historical linguistics. The new methods automatize several steps of the traditional comparative method and can thus help to ease the painstaking work of language comparison. Dissertations in Language and Cognition This series explores issues of mental representation, lingustic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

New Directions in Logic, Language, and Computation

Author : Daniel Lassiter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642314678
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Logic, Language, and Computation written by Daniel Lassiter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. During two weeks, around 50 courses and 10 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on The papers are organized in topical sections on language and computation; logic and computation; and logic and language.

The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management

Author : Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262045265
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management written by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. "Doing language science" depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics into a more data-driven and reproducible scientific endeavor. It offers both principles and methods, presenting the conceptual foundations of linguistic data management and a series of case studies, each of which demonstrates a concrete application of abstract principles in a current practice. In part 1, contributors bring together knowledge from information science, archiving, and data stewardship relevant to linguistic data management. Topics covered include implementation principles, archiving data, finding and using datasets, and the valuation of time and effort involved in data management. Part 2 presents snapshots of practices across various subfields, with each chapter presenting a unique data management project with generalizable guidance for researchers. The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management is an essential addition to the toolkit of every linguist, guiding researchers toward making their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines

Author : Agathe du Crest
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031333586
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines written by Agathe du Crest and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists, philosophers of biology, philosophers of social science, complex systems modelers, psychologists, anthropologists, economists, linguists, historians, and educators, the volume examines evolutionary thinking within and outside the life sciences from a multidisciplinary perspective. While the chapters written by biologists and philosophers of science address theoretical aspects of the guiding questions and aims of the volume, the chapters written by researchers from the other areas approach them from the perspective of applying evolutionary thinking to non-biological phenomena. Taken together, the chapters in this volume do not only show how evolutionary thinking can be fruitfully applied in various areas of investigation, but also highlight numerous open problems, unanswered questions, and issues on which more clarity is needed. As such, the volume can serve as a starting point for future research on the application of evolutionary thinking across disciplines.

Tajik Linguistics

Author : Shinji Ido
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110619539
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Tajik Linguistics by : Shinji Ido

Download or read book Tajik Linguistics written by Shinji Ido and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hardly an overstatement to say that Soviet linguists had a monopoly over Tajik linguistics before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when most studies on the language were accessible exclusively through Russian and Tajik. Today, however, linguists dealing with Tajik are diverse not only in terms of their location but also in terms of their disciplinary orientation within linguistics, making it difficult for the general linguist to work out the state of the art of the linguistic study of Tajik. This volume aims to address this difficulty by collecting in a handbook format recent (post-Soviet) developments in the study of Tajik that now lie scattered in different subdisciplines of linguistics. The volume thus showcases the state of the art of post-Soviet Tajik linguistics and can be used as a guide for linguists interested in the language.

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II

Author : Richard D. Janda
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111873226X
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II by : Richard D. Janda

Download or read book The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II written by Richard D. Janda and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.

Information-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow

Author : Johannes Dellert
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961101434
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Information-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow by : Johannes Dellert

Download or read book Information-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow written by Johannes Dellert and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to infer large phylogenetic networks from phonetically encoded lexical data and contribute in this way to the historical study of language varieties. The technical step that enables progress in this case is the use of causal inference algorithms. Sample sets of words from language varieties are preprocessed into automatically inferred cognate sets, and then modeled as information-theoretic variables based on an intuitive measure of cognate overlap. Causal inference is then applied to these variables in order to determine the existence and direction of influence among the varieties. The directed arcs in the resulting graph structures can be interpreted as reflecting the existence and directionality of lexical flow, a unified model which subsumes inheritance and borrowing as the two main ways of transmission that shape the basic lexicon of languages. A flow-based separation criterion and domain-specific directionality detection criteria are developed to make existing causal inference algorithms more robust against imperfect cognacy data, giving rise to two new algorithms. The Phylogenetic Lexical Flow Inference (PLFI) algorithm requires lexical features of proto-languages to be reconstructed in advance, but yields fully general phylogenetic networks, whereas the more complex Contact Lexical Flow Inference (CLFI) algorithm treats proto-languages as hidden common causes, and only returns hypotheses of historical contact situations between attested languages. The algorithms are evaluated both against a large lexical database of Northern Eurasia spanning many language families, and against simulated data generated by a new model of language contact that builds on the opening and closing of directional contact channels as primary evolutionary events. The algorithms are found to infer the existence of contacts very reliably, whereas the inference of directionality remains difficult. This currently limits the new algorithms to a role as exploratory tools for quickly detecting salient patterns in large lexical datasets, but it should soon be possible for the framework to be enhanced e.g. by confidence values for each directionality decision.

Intelligent Technologies and Applications

Author : Imran Sarwar Bajwa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811552320
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Technologies and Applications written by Imran Sarwar Bajwa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications, INTAP 2019, held in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in November 2019. The 60 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. Additionally, the volume presents 1 invited paper. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on AI and health; sentiment analysis; intelligent applications; social media analytics; business intelligence;Natural Language Processing; information extraction; machine learning; smart systems; semantic web; decision support systems; image analysis; automated software engineering.

Analysis and Application of Natural Language and Speech Processing

Author : Mourad Abbas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031110358
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Analysis and Application of Natural Language and Speech Processing written by Mourad Abbas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent advances in NLP and speech technology, a topic attracting increasing interest in a variety of fields through its myriad applications, such as the demand for speech guided touchless technology during the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors present results of recent experimental research that provides contributions and solutions to different issues related to speech technology and speech in industry. Technologies include natural language processing, automatic speech recognition (for under-resourced dialects) and speech synthesis that are useful for applications such as intelligent virtual assistants, among others. Applications cover areas such as sentiment analysis and opinion mining, Arabic named entity recognition, and language modelling. This book is relevant for anyone interested in the latest in language and speech technology.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics

Author : Silvia Luraghi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144114966X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics written by Silvia Luraghi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in historical linguistics, while supplying an exhaustive and up-to-date coverage of sub-fields traditionally regarded as central to historical linguistics research. The editors aim to build a solid background for further discussion and to indicate directions for new research on relevant open questions. The book includes coverage of key terms, a list of resources, and sections on: - history of research- methodology- phonology- morphology- grammatical categories- syntax- grammaticalization- semantics - etymology- language contact- sociolinguistics- causes of language change It is a complete resource for researchers working on historical linguistics.

All Things Morphology

Author : Sedigheh Moradi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259747
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book All Things Morphology written by Sedigheh Moradi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical points of view. These seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology. The chapters in this book elaborate on these basic themes, from the further exploration of paradigms, to studies involving words, stems, and affixes, to examinations of competition, inheritance, and defaults, to investigations of morphomes, to ways that morphology interacts with other parts of the language from phonology to sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The editors and contributors dedicate this volume to Prof. Mark Aronoff for his profound influence on the field.

Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily

Author : Yan Kapranov
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847017306
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily written by Yan Kapranov and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a groundbreaking exploration into the Nostratic macrofamily, a concept that proposes a common ancestral language for several of the world's foremost language families. The study delves deep into the roots of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic languages, offering a unique perspective on their interconnections and evolutionary paths. The authors examine five pivotal Nostratic etymons from the Swadesh index to illustrate the shared cognitive frameworks of these diverse linguistic groups. This research challenges conventional perspectives on language evolution and introduces new methodologies in cognitive macro-comparative studies. Key to the work is the hypothesis of divergent-convergent and convergent-divergent evolutionary patterns stemming from a common Nostratic origin. Beyond linguistics, this study offers insights into human cognitive development, language formation, and change mechanisms.

Quantifying Language Dynamics

Author : Soren Wichmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004281525
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Quantifying Language Dynamics written by Soren Wichmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, Quantifying Language Dynamics introduces new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language contact, evolution, and patterns of phylogenetic descent.

Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects

Author : Marcos Zampieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429351
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects written by Marcos Zampieri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying language variation requires comprehensive interdisciplinary knowledge and new computational tools. This essential reference introduces researchers and graduate students in computer science, linguistics, and NLP to the core topics in language variation and the computational methods applied to similar languages, varieties, and dialects.

English Historical Linguistics 2008

Author : Hans Sauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727357X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book English Historical Linguistics 2008 written by Hans Sauer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women’s mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex. The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.

The Biology of Language Under a Minimalist Lens: Promises, Achievements, and Limits

Author : Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889666514
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Language Under a Minimalist Lens: Promises, Achievements, and Limits written by Antonio Benítez-Burraco and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Author : Trask R. L. Trask
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474473318
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics written by Trask R. L. Trask and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years, many of which have not even made it into textbooks yet.All of the traditional terms are here, but so are the terms only introduced recently, in connection with such varied subjects as pidgin and creole languages, the sociolinguistic study of language change, mathematical and computational methods, the novel approaches to linguistic geography, the controversial proposals of new and vast language families, and the attempts at relating the results of the historical linguists to those of the archaeologists, the anthropologists and the geneticists.More than just a dictionary, this book provides genuine linguistic examples of most of the terms entered, detailed explanations of fundamental concepts, critical assessment of controversial ideas, cross-references to related terms, and an abundance of references to the original literature.Features:*The first dictionary in the field.*Comprehensive coverage.*Clearly written and accurate entries.*Covers traditional and contemporary terminology.*Provides linguistic examples of terms defined.*Supplies numerous cross-references to related terms.*Includes hundreds of references to the original literature.