The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

Modern phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used to address questions about
macro-level patterns in cultural evolution. These methods can illuminate the unobservable …

Both qualitative concepts and quantitative methods from evolutionary biology have been
applied to linguistics. Many linguists have noted the similarity between biological evolution …

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in …

This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how
languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the …

Quantitative Methods in Linguistics offers a practical introduction to statistics and quantitative
analysis with data sets drawn from the field and coverage of phonetics, psycholinguistics …

On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP Page 1 Linguistic Issues in
Language Technology LiLT Submitted, October 2011 On Achieving and Evaluating …

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of metastases is critical for understanding their basic
biological principles and has profound clinical implications. Genome-wide sequencing data …

One of the oldest problems in linguistics is reconstructing the words that appeared in the
protolanguages from which modern languages evolved. Identifying the forms of these …

An approach to the classification of languages through automated lexical comparison is
described. This method produces near-expert classifications. At the core of the approach is …