Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages 论文

摘要

Introduction Part 1: Classification Malagasy Language As A Guide To Understanding Malagasy History (Robert Dewar) The Basis Of Linguistic Phylogenetics (Isidore Diven) Rapid Radiation, Borrowing And Dialect Continua In The Bantu Languages (Clare Holden and Russell D Gray) Multilateral Comparison And Signi.Cance Testing Of The Indo-Uralic Question (Brett Kessler and Annukka Lehtonen) Bantu Classi.Cation, Bantu Trees And Phylogenetic Methods (Lutz Marten) Quasi-Cognates And Lexical Type Shifts: Rigorous Distance Measures For Long Range Comparison (Johanna Nichols) Phylogenetic Analysis Of Written Traditions (Matthew Spencer et al) A Stochastic Model Of Language Evolution That Incorporates Homoplasy And Borrowing (Tandy Warnow et al) Part 2: Chronology How Old Is The Indo-European Language Family? - Illumination Or More Moths To The Flame? (Quentin D Atkinson and Russell D Gray) Radiation And Network Breaking In Polynesian Linguistics (David Bryant) Inference Of Divergence Times As A Statistical Inverse Problem (Steven N Evans, Don Ringe and Tandy Warnow) Evolution Of English Basic Vocabulary Within The Network Of Germanic Languages (Peter Forster, Tobias Polzin and Arne Rhl) Convergence In The Formation Of Indo-European Subgroups: Phylogeny And Chronology (Andrew Garrett) Why Linguists Don't Do Dates: Evidence From Indo-European And Australian Languages (April McMahon and Robert McMahon) Quantifying Uncertainty In A Stochastic Model Of Vocabulary Evolution (G K Nicholls and R D Gray) Estimating Rates Of Lexical Replacement On Phylogenetic Trees Of Languages (Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade) Conclusion: Interdisciplinary Indiscipline? Can Phylogenetic Methods Meaningfully Be Applied To Language Data - And To Dating Language? (Paul Hegagarty) Glossary.