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Problems with, and alternatives to, the tree model in historical linguistics
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In: Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01967335 ; Siva Kalyan; Alexandre François; Harald Hammarström. Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model, 9 (1), Benjamins, pp.1-8, 2019, Journal of Historical Linguistics, ⟨10.1075/jhl.00005.kal⟩ (2019)
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Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model
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In: ISSN: 2210-2116 ; Journal of Historical Linguistics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01967333 ; Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9 (1), John Benjamins, 2019 (2019)
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International audience ; There are important reasons to be sceptical of the accuracy and usefulness of the family-tree model in historical linguistics. That model assumes that every linguistic innovation applies to a language considered as an undifferentiated whole, a point with no “width”. But this assumption makes it impossible to use a tree to model the partial diffusion of an innovation within a language community (“internal diffusion”), or the diffusion of an innovation across language communities (“external diffusion”). These limitations have long been noticed by historical linguists (Schmidt 1872, Schuchardt 1900); but they become glaringly obvious in the cases discussed by Ross (1988) and François (2014) under the heading of “linkages” – i.e., language families that arise through the diversification, in situ, of a dialect network. The articles in this special issue all contribute towards addressing this problem, from a range of perspectives.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Comparative method; Diachronic linguistics; Dialectology; Diffusion of innovations; Historical dialectology; Historical Glottometry; Historical linguistics; Historical sociolinguistics; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Phylogenetics; Tree model; Wave model; Wellentheorie
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01967333
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When the waves meet the trees: A response to Jacques and List
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In: Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01967334 ; Siva Kalyan; Alexandre François; Harald Hammarström. Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model, 9 (1), Benjamins, pp.167-176, 2019, Journal of Historical Linguistics, ⟨10.1075/jhl.18019.kal⟩ (2019)
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