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Modeling word trees in historical linguistics. Preliminary ideas for the reconciliation of word trees and language trees
- Author(s):
- Nathanael Erik Schweikhard (see profile) , Johann-Mattis List
- Date:
- 2022
- Subject(s):
- Computational linguistics, Data curation, Language and languages--Etymology, Historical linguistics, Morphology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Indo-European, linguistic data, Networks, tree reconciliation, word trees, Etymology
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/y32r-r542
- Abstract:
- Please cite as: Schweikhard, Nathanael E. & Johann-Mattis List. (forthcoming). Modeling word trees in historical linguistics. Preliminary ideas for the reconciliation of word trees and language trees. In: Bela Brogyanyi & Reiner Lipp (Hgg.). Historische Linguistik III. Beiträge der Sektion „Historische Linguistik“, 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen „Sprach(en)forschung: Disziplinen und Interdisziplinarität“, 30. Mai -1. Juni 2019, Uniwerzytet Warszawski. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. Abstract: Linguists have acknowledged for a long time that words have their own history that does not necessarily fully align with the history of the languages as a whole. Recent approaches in computational historical linguistics have started integrating this fact into their models of language change, yet without modelling linguistic processes like word formation in detail. Inspired by advances in evolutionary biology, we propose a framework for annotating etymological relationships within word families as word trees to make this kind of data available for quantitative and qualitative studies. We test our dataset on a data sample of etymologies and include a small selection of Python scripts that enable checking the annotation for consistency and deriving basic statistics.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Modeling word trees in historical linguistics. Preliminary ideas for the reconciliation of word trees and language trees