Traditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all
languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated by internal trade-offs between …

Languages vary in how they signal “who does what to whom”. Three main strategies to
indicate the participant roles of “who” and “whom” are case, verbal indexing, and rigid word …

Abstract Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA) is a resource capturing two snapshots of
the grammatical structure of a diverse range of languages separated in time, aimed at …

Computational language models (LMs), most notably exemplified by the widespread
success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, show impressive performance on a wide range of …

Human languages vary widely in how they encode information within circumscribed
semantic domains (for example, time, space, colour, human body parts and activities), but …

This paper makes the case for using historical corpora to assess questions of sociolinguistic
typology. A full account of any contact‐induced change will need to establish what the …

The value to be gained from the incorporation of phonological arguments and insights into
the general creolist debate is vast [...] Phonology will help make creole studies more …

This paper uses phylogenetic modeling to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms
responsible for the maintenance of sound symbolism in the world's languages. Applying our …

The value to be gained from the incorporation of phonological arguments and insights into
the general creolist debate is vast [...] Phonology will help make creole studies more …

The current dissertation is a case study in historical linguistics, focusing on the genealogical
position, sound history, and hitherto unetymologised lexicon of Nganasan, a language …