The aim of this article is to present new research showcasing how Geographic Information Systems in combination with Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics methods can offer innovative venues of research to analyse large textual collections in the Humanities, and particularly, in historical research. Using as example parts of the collection of the Registrar General’s Reports that co...

Abstract Digital humanities make it possible to approach traditional academic topics (such as Hispanic linguistic historiography) from a novel and revelatory perspective. Using tools such Voyant Tools or Gephi , one can study both primary secondary sources the history of linguistics extract various theoretical historical values subject historiographical meta-historiographical reflection. To tha...

Stylistics, which may be defined as the study of the language of literature, makes use of various tools of linguistic analysis. Corpus linguistics is opening up new vistas for the study of language, and there are interesting similarities in the approaches of stylistics and corpus linguistics. Stylistics is a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory a...

Hajek and Bowden (Oceanic Linguistics 41:222–224) report on the unusual ejective series in Waimoa, an Austronesian language of East Timor. I argue that, while phonetically odd, it is not a phonological oddity to 2nd ejectives in an Austronesian language, especially not one in the Timor region. A possible historical pathway for the genesis of the ejectives is proposed, and some questions are rai...

their disciplines, it seemed a possibly useful contribution to write a book that would draw from all the relevant disciplines about the past, from primatology to historical linguistics, with genetics as the common thread to weave all these findings together into a coherent narrative. I was amazed at how much detail can now be filled in on the largely blank pages of human prehistory extending fr...

The Long before B. Joseph Pine II established a viable economic strategy around the concept of Mass Customization, and Dell Computer’s execution of a custom build-to-order strategy, combinatorial theory (configuring of modular components) and generative systems have been employed in biological systems, grammatical sentence structure in linguistics, and also in architectural and urban design. Th...

humanities is the oldest area of study that revolves around the study of human beings, what makes us human and our historical development, and what we are expected to do. this discipline deals with human behavior, human nature, social and political values. humanities comprise of various disciplines that include art, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, religious and ethics among others. all t...

10.1 The forbidden experiment Language and culture separate humans from all other species. No human group lacks either, which must mean that both are deeply seated in human nature. What are the essential ingredients of these two most human of attributes? Our central task as linguists is to try to answer this question for language. One strategy for tackling this problem is to trace all existing ...