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doi:10.22028/D291-32036
Title: | Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies |
Author(s): | Verkerk, Annemarie |
Language: | English |
Title: | Journal of Historical Linguistics |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 9-69 |
Publisher/Platform: | John Benjamins Publishing |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Free key words: | Bayesian phylogenetic inference Austronesian Sinitic Indo-European Japonic language contact reticulation |
DDC notations: | 400 Language, linguistics |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Recent applications of phylogenetic methods to historical linguistics have been criticized for assuming a tree structure in which ancestral languages differentiate and split up into daughter languages, while language evolution is inherently non-tree-like (François 2014; Blench 2015: 32–33). This article attempts to contribute to this debate by discussing the use of the multiple topologies method (Pagel & Meade 2006a) implemented in BayesPhyloge- nies (Pagel & Meade 2004). This method is applied to lexical datasets from four different language families: Austronesian (Gray, Drummond & Green- hill 2009), Sinitic (Ben Hamed & Wang 2006), Indo-European (Bouckaert et al. 2012), and Japonic (Lee & Hasegawa 2011). Evidence for multiple topologies is found in all families except, surprisingly, Austronesian. It is suggested that reticulation may arise from a number of processes, including dialect chain break-up, borrowing (both shortly after language splits and later on), incomplete lineage sorting, and characteristics of lexical datasets. It is shown that the multiple topologies method is a useful tool to study the dynamics of language evolution. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1075/jhl.17009.ver |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-320366 hdl:20.500.11880/29634 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-32036 |
ISSN: | 2210-2124 |
Date of registration: | 7-Sep-2020 |
Faculty: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
Professorship: | P - Keiner Professur zugeordnet |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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