Søren Wichmann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Søren Wichmann plays a role.

Titles

The Diachrony of Classification Systems

Edited by William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342] 2018. xi, 362 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects Historical linguistics

Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh

Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant

Special issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) v, 168 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics
Wichmann, Søren 2018 IntroductionThe Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
Wichmann, Søren 2017 Modeling language family expansionsDiachronica 34:1, pp. 79–101 | Article
This paper presents properties of a computer simulation of language migration. It takes as input a simulated phylogeny and a database of today’s populated places. At each time step, a language moves within a geographical quadrilateral defined by the minimal number, ch, of choices of populated… read more
Pache, Matthias, Søren Wichmann and Mikhail Zhivlov 2016 Words for ‘dog’ as a diagnostic of language contact in the AmericasLanguage Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino (eds.), pp. 385–410 | Article
Words for ‘dog’ are frequently borrowed in several parts of the world, including the Americas. Often words for ‘dog’ are borrowed along with other lexical material. The study of the distribution of these borrowed words can serve as a first step towards the identification of evidence for linguistic… read more
Wichmann, Søren, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai 2012 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approachQuantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 57–86 | Article
A systematic, computer-automated tool for narrowing down the homelands of linguistic families is presented and applied to 82 of the world’s larger families. The approach is inspired by the well-known idea that the geographical area of maximal diversity within a language family corresponds to the… read more
Wichmann, Søren, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai 2010 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approachQuantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 247–276 | Article
A systematic, computer-automated tool for narrowing down the homelands of linguistic families is presented and applied to 82 of the world’s larger families. The approach is inspired by the well-known idea that the geographical area of maximal diversity within a language family corresponds to the… read more
This paper presents data on the Azoyú Tlapanec reference tracking system. The system is analyzed according to a procedure where default rules for how the system works are formulated and deviations are interpreted as being licensed by different levels of grammar organization along the lines of the… read more
Wichmann, Søren and Arpiar Saunders 2007 How to use typological databases in historical linguistic researchDiachronica 24:2, pp. 373–404 | Article
Several databases have been compiled with the aim of documenting the distribution of typological features across the world’s languages. This paper looks at ways of utilizing this type of data for making inferences concerning genealogical relationships by using phylogenetic algorithms originally… read more
Wichmann, Søren 1996 The degrammaticalization of agentivity in TlapanecContent, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), pp. 343–360 | Article