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Automated methods for the investigation of language contact, with a focus on lexical borrowing
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2019-08-23 , DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12355
Johann‐Mattis List 1
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While language contact has so far been predominantly studied on the basis of detailed case studies, the emergence of methods for phylogenetic reconstruction and automated word comparison – as a result of the recent quantitative turn in historical linguistics – has also resulted in new proposals to study language contact situations by means of automated approaches. This study provides a concise introduction to the most important approaches which have been proposed in the past, presenting methods that use (A) phylogenetic networks to detect reticulation events during language history, (B) sequence comparison methods in order to identify borrowings in multilingual datasets, and (C) arguments for the borrowability of shared traits to decide if traits have been borrowed or inherited. While the overview focuses on approaches dealing with lexical borrowing, questions of general contact inference will also be discussed where applicable.

中文翻译:

自动调查语言接触的方法,重点是词汇借用

迄今为止,虽然主要是基于详细的案例研究来研究语言接触,但是由于历史语言学最近出现的定量转变,系统发育重建和自动单词比较方法的出现也提出了研究语言的新建议。通过自动化方法联系情况。这项研究简要介绍了过去提出的最重要的方法,介绍了使用以下方法:(A)系统发育网络来检测语言历史过程中的网状事件;(B)序列比较方法,以识别多语言数据集中的借用,以及(C)关于可共享特征的可借用性的参数,以决定特征是否已被借用或继承。
更新日期:2019-08-23
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