We show that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, syntactic traits, modeled here within
the generative biolinguistic framework, provide insights into deep-time language history. To …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

Can language relatedness be established without cognate words? This question has
remained unresolved since the nineteenth century, leaving language prehistory beyond …

Historical explanations in science are primarily concerned with the reconstruction of initial
conditions determining observable later events. Historical linguistics focuses on the …

We assess the sociolinguistic vitality of Romeyka, the only Asia Minor Greek variety, which,
albeit endangered, is still spoken in the Black Sea region, Turkey (historically known as …

The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of
grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss …

The syntax of demonstratives in the Greek varieties of southern Italy and more broadly in
diaspora Greek can serve as a case study of how long-term unbalanced contact can give …

This paper investigates aspects of adjectival modification in Romance and Greek of
Southern Italy. In Italiot Greek, prenominal adjectives obey restrictions that do not exist in …

Anatolia, or Asia Minor, hosted languages from various phyla (Urartian, Indo-European,
Semitic, Kartvelian, Turkic). The relevance of modern Anatolia for contact linguistics came to …

We use the persistent homology method of topological data analysis and dimensional
analysis techniques to study data of syntactic structures of world languages. We analyze …