We present CogNet, a large-scale, automatically-built database of sense-tagged cognates—
words of common origin and meaning across languages. CogNet is continuously evolving …

Lexical borrowing, the transfer of words from one language to another, is one of the most
frequent processes in language evolution. In order to detect borrowings, linguists make use …

Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been
few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets. Moreover, none …

Abstract The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) is a fundamental governing principle of
syllable structure; however, its details remain contested. This study aims to clarify 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 …

In this paper, we combine several statistical techniques (multivariate probit models,
Gaussian processes, and phylogenetic regression) into a new approach for exploring the …

Bangime is a language isolate, which has not been proven to be genealogically related to
any other language family, spoken in Central-Eastern Mali. Its speakers, the Bangande …

Language contact is a pervasive phenomenon reflected in the borrowing of words from
donor to recipient languages. Most computational approaches to borrowing detection treat …

The chapter discusses recently developed computational techniques providing concrete
help in addressing various tasks in historical language comparison, focusing specifically on …

Identification of lexical borrowings, transfer of words between languages, is an essential
practice of historical linguistics and a vital tool in analysis of language contact and cultural …