Erich Round

List of John Benjamins publications for which Erich Round plays a role.

Journal

Title

Demystifying New Methods in Historical Linguistics

Edited by Erich Round

Special issue of Diachronica 41:3 (2024) v, 137 pp.
Historical linguistics has experienced an upsurge in methodological innovation. However, owing to the constraints of contemporary publication, these innovations often appear in print in a format which is technical, dense and less than fully accessible. Moreover, because these innovations are… read more
Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Claire Bowern and Erich Round 2021 Phylogenetic signal in phonotacticsDiachronica 38:2, pp. 210–258 | Article
Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference. Here, we show how a phylogenetic approach opens the possibility of gaining historical insights from entirely new kinds of linguistic data – in this instance, statistical phonotactics. We extract phonotactic data from… read more
Cathcart, Chundra A., Gerd Carling, Filip Larsson, Niklas Johansson and Erich Round 2018 Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case studyDiachronica 35:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Indo-European languages. We partition types of change (i.e., gain or loss) for each variant according to whether they bring about a simplification in morphosyntactic patterns that must be learned,… read more
Memmott, Paul, Erich Round, Daniel Rosendahl and Sean Ulm 2016 Fission, fusion and syncretism: Linguistic and environmental changes amongst the Tangkic people of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern AustraliaLand and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 105–136 | Article
A revised model of Tangkic linguistic and cultural history is developed based on a reanalysis of relationships between six Tangkic languages in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria and drawing on recent archaeological and environmental studies. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Tangkic basic vocabulary… read more
Round, Erich 2014 Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallelLanguage Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 81–96 | Article
Pre-stopped nasals and laterals occur in several Australian languages, but why? Nasal pre-stopping likely enhances cues to place of articulation contrasts (Butcher 1999, 2006). Though recent work proposes that lateral pre-stopping does likewise (Keyser & Stevens 2006: footnote 7; Loakes et al.… read more