Modern phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used to address questions about
macro-level patterns in cultural evolution. These methods can illuminate the unobservable …

In recent years, techniques such as Bayesian inference of phylogeny have become a
standard part of the quantitative linguistic toolkit. While these tools successfully model the …

In this paper, we propose two new statistical controls for genealogical and areal bias in
typological samples. Our test case being the effect of VO-order effect on affix position …

Language Phylogenies: Modelling the Evolution of Language | The Oxford Handbook of Cultural
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Phylogenetic analyses increasingly take centre-stage in our understanding of the processes
shaping patterns of cultural diversity and cultural evolution over time. Just as biologists …

This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the
early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor …

Phylogenetic comparative methods are new in our field and are shrouded, for most linguists,
in at least a little mystery. Yet the path that led to their discovery in comparative biology is so …

Early conceptualizations of evolution, eg by Charles Darwin, saw similarities in the evolution
of languages and of biological species. This similarity has been disputed at times, but in …

Variation and change are inherent to language. While this is an uncontroversial statement in
linguistics, the mechanisms that steer language variation and change are debated. Our …