The Diachrony of Classification Systems
Edited by William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342] 2018. xi, 362 pp.
Søren Wichmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Søren Wichmann plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant
[Benjamins Current Topics, 46] 2012. x, 182 pp.
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
Articles
2018 Introduction The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2017 Modeling language family expansions Diachronica 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
2016 Words for ‘dog’ as a diagnostic of language contact in the Americas Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany (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
2012 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach Quantitative 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
2010 Review of Newman (2009): The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 487–491 | Review
2010 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach Quantitative 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
2007 The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec: Between obviation and switch-reference Studies in Language 31:4, pp. 801–827 | Article
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
2007 How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research Diachronica 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
1996 The degrammaticalization of agentivity in Tlapanec Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), pp. 343 ff. | Article