The past decades have seen substantial growth in digital data on the world's languages. At
the same time, the demand for cross-linguistic datasets has been increasing, as witnessed …

Discussion of Indo-European origins and dispersal focuses on two hypotheses. Qualitative
evidence from reconstructed vocabulary and correlations with archaeological data suggest …

The study of crop origins has traditionally involved identifying geographic areas of high
morphological diversity, sampling populations of wild progenitor species, and the …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Both pidgins and creoles are assumed to have small phoneme inventories, to allow only
simple syllable structures and to lack tone, while mixed languages are assumed to either …

The amount of data from languages spoken all over the world is rapidly increasing.
Traditional manual methods in historical linguistics need to face the challenges brought by …

The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many
techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques …

Linguistic distance, ie the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing
international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by …

What would your ideas about language evolution be if there was only one language left on
earth? Fortunately, our investigation need not be that impoverished. In the present article …

The study of domestication contributes to our knowledge of evolution and crop genetic
resources. Human selection has shaped wild Brassica rapa into diverse turnip, leafy, and …