The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical
analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic …

Languages are continuously undergoing changes, and the mechanisms that underlie these
changes are still a matter of debate. In this work, we approach language evolution through …

Abstract Language change is influenced by many factors, but often starts from synchronic
variation, where multiple linguistic patterns or forms coexist, or where different speech …

For a long time, linguists more or less denied the existence of individual differences in
grammatical knowledge. While recent years have seen an explosion of research on …

Structural genomics began as a global effort in the 1990s to determine the tertiary structures
of all protein families as a response to large-scale genome sequencing projects. The …

This study investigates the extent to which there is individuality in how structural variation is
conditioned over time. Earlier research already classified the diachronically unstable gerund …

We present a new, extended version of the Royal Society Corpus (RSC), a diachronic
corpus of scientific English now covering 300+ years of scientific writing (1665–1996). The …

The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective. We offer the
first longitudinal study of how emoji semantics changes over time, applying techniques from …

Parmi l'ensemble des procédés néologiques, l'emprunt occupe une place à part puisque le
matériau provient d'un autre système linguistique. Il occupe également une place de choix …

Complex systems research has chiefly investigated language change from a social
dynamics perspective, with undeniable success. However, there is more to language …