In this paper, a new method for automatic cognate detection in multilingual wordlists will be presented. The main idea behind the method is to combine different approaches to sequence comparison in historical linguistics and evolutionary biology into a new framework which closely models the most important aspects of the comparative method. The method is implemented as a Python program and provi...

This article offers a general discussion of the concept of universals in linguistics (and in general), spelling out different ways of understanding claims to universality and connecting such claims to other (often familiar) related distinctions, terminology and approaches such as competence and performance or I-language and E-language, evolutionary explanations, deep and surface universals, rat...

Using Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry, we analyze computationally the phylogenetic tree of subfamilies of the Indo-European language family, using data of syntactic structures. The two main sources of syntactic data are the SSWL database and Longobardi’s recent data of syntactic parameters. We compute phylogenetic invariants and likelihood functions for two sets of Germanic languages, a set of ...

Email: [email protected] This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to date with the cycle of activities which make up this field of study as...

The notion of cognitive linguistics first appeared in the 1970's, largely as a response to the shortcomings of truth-conditional semantics and generative grammar. Since then it has attracted the interest of a number of scholars, giving rise to a complex discipline encompassing the study of semantics, syntax, morphology, as well as reaching other disciplines of linguistic investigations, such as...

Applied linguistics and educational are part of linguistics. Someone who is interested in studying this science must be able to distinguish it have a deep perspective. The purpose literature review investigate the differences, similarities, scope, relationships between these two disciplines. This discussion based on secondary sources focuses applied linguistics, course, as topics discussion. st...

The objective of this research is to establish a connection between Arabic theoretical linguistics and modern linguistics, taking different approach from the common assumption that later theories are solely attributed Arab grammarians rhetoricians. To achieve this, study will examine linguistic achievements perspective highlight commonalities differences past present theories. Additionally, del...

Introduction Linguistic analysis of collaboration is a research area with stakeholders from multiple fields, including learning sciences, organizational behavior, sociolinguistics and other areas of linguistics, language technologies and machine learning, social psychology, and sociology. Each field brings with it its own valuable store of wisdom as well as its own sets of research questions an...