Many languages have morphosyntactic systems that impose a classification on their nominal
lexicon. The nature of these systems varies widely, ranging from large systems of lexico …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

This paper sketches a comprehensive framework for modeling and interpreting language
contact phenomena, with speakers' bilingual strategies in specific scenarios of language …

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study
chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to …

Understanding how and why language subsystems differ in their evolutionary dynamics is a
fundamental question for historical and comparative linguistics. One key dynamic is the rate …

In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent
worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Making …

The ASJP project aims at establishing relationships between languages on the basis of the
Swadesh word list. For this purpose, lists have been collected and phonologically …

Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions
between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker's …

Abstract Language shapes its speakers' cognition and decision-making. Consequently,
recent studies have examined the effects of linguistic structures like future time reference …

Darwin (1859) considered language a form of memory that stores information in a genome-
like mode. Grammar, according to cognitive science research (Boroditsky, Schmidt, & …