Historical linguistics has long dabbled in computational and quantitative approaches. More
recently, new Bayesian phylogenetic methods from evolutionary biology–which do not share …

Here we present an expanded version of bdproto, a database comprising phonological
inventory data from 257 ancient and reconstructed languages. These data were extracted …

Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference. Here, we
show how a phylogenetic approach opens the possibility of gaining historical insights from …

Psychologists and linguists collect various data on word and concept properties. In
psychology, scholars have accumulated norms and ratings for a large number of words in …

Here, we describe the process used to generate the tree sample used for inference in this
paper, as well as the details of the inference process used to infer evolutionary transition …

This article responds to a call for research, made by Hock (1990) more than 30 years ago,
on the subject behavior of potential non-nominative subjects in the early Indo-European …

This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in
117 Indo-European languages. We partition types of change (ie, gain or loss) for each …

For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo-European linguistics has
been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state …

Grammaticalization is characterized by robust directional asymmetries (eg,). For instance,
body-part nominals develop into spatial adpositions, minimizers develop into negation …

Bayesian phylogenetic methods have been gaining traction and currency in historical
linguistics, as their potential for uncovering elements of language change is increasingly …