Vladimir Pericliev
Biographic Data
| ID | 170137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Pericliev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Pericliev |
| SIGNATURE | PERICLIEV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language Universals: Their Discovery and Verbalization by Machine
The task of discovering language universals from data is computationally complex and hence difficult to solve manually. To handle this problem I introduce a computational system that can discover all universals in a given database and verbalize them in English. Additionally, if this database has been previously analyzed by a human, the system can compare the discoveries of the human and machine agent and produce a whole article with its results. …
On Colexification among Basic Vocabulary
The paper presents a typological database of colexifications among basic vocabulary, derived from the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) database. Some uses of the inventory of colexifications are proposed. Some heuristics are introduced regarding the discrimination of polysemy from homonymy in a typological database, as well as such pertaining to the determination of common membership of two languages in the same language family. In pa…
Componential Analysis of Kin Terms - Some Problems and their Solutions
Componential analysis of kinship vocabulary has a long tradition, but a look at the practicing of the method reveals two basic problems. The first pertains to ensuring “consistent” kin term definitions (i.e., definitions with necessary and sufficient components), and the second to the discovery and handling of multiple solutions to kinship systems. The paper introduces a computer program implemented to handle these two problems, and in general, d…
The Kaingang-Austronesian Relationship Hypothesis: Evidence from Kinship Terminology
The Kaingang language family comprises two closely related languages, Xokleng and Kaingang, spoken in south-eastern Brazil, on the Atlantic, and the Austronesian family includes a large number of languages, covering a vast area in the Pacific. Our previous investigations reveal significant similarities between the Kaingang and Austronesian language families in both grammar and lexicon, suggesting the existence of phylogenetic affiliation between …
The Kaingang (Brazil) Seem Linguistically Related to Oceanic Populations
The Southern-Ge Kaingang people, comprising the Xokleng and the Kaingang, presently reside in the states of Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul in south-eastern Brazil, and speak two closely related languages, forming the Kaingang language family. No external relationship of the Kaingang people, or their language, with peoples or languages outside of Ge, or Amerind(ian) more generally, has so far been suggested. In a previous…
Significant Lexical Similarities between a Language of Brazil and Some Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania: From Typolocial Perspective
The paper examines computationally the similarities in 100-word lists of basic vocabulary between Xokleng (a language of southeastern Brazil, classified as Macro-Ge) and Tagalog and Malay (languages of Southeast Asia) and Fijian, Samoan, and Hawaiian (languages of Oceania). It is found that in all five pair-wise comparisons the resemblances found are statistically highly significant (i.e., are greater-than-chance). A plausible explanation of thes…
Universals, their Violation and the Notion of Phonologically Peculiar Languages
A language can be said to be “peculiar” if it violates a universal pattern that admits only very few exceptions. In the paper, we propose a typology of phonological peculiarities concerning the content of segment inventories, and deal in detail with one of these types. The type involves the illegitimate absence of a segment that an implicational universal predicts should actually be present in the segment inventory of a language. A computer progr…
Concise, intelligible, and approximate profiling of multiple classes
Computer Enumeration of Significant Implicational Universals of Kinship Terminology
The discovery of general patterns and their subsequent explanation is a familiar method in linguistics and other cross-cultural research. This article addresses the computerized enumeration of significant cultural and linguistic patterns, specifically implicational universals. We dispute published suggestions that the mechanical generation of universals is inadvisable by arguing that such claims do not distinguish clearly the noticing of a patter…
Computer Enumeration of Significant Implicational Universals of Kinship Terminology
The discovery of general patterns and their subsequent explanation is a familiar method in linguistics and other cross-cultural research. This article addresses the computerized enumeration of significant cultural and linguistic patterns, specifically implicational universals. We dispute published suggestions that the mechanical generation of universals is inadvisable by arguing that such claims do not distinguish clearly the noticing of a patter…
Concise, intelligible, and approximate profiling of multiple classes
Universals, their Violation and the Notion of Phonologically Peculiar Languages
A language can be said to be “peculiar” if it violates a universal pattern that admits only very few exceptions. In the paper, we propose a typology of phonological peculiarities concerning the content of segment inventories, and deal in detail with one of these types. The type involves the illegitimate absence of a segment that an implicational universal predicts should actually be present in the segment inventory of a language. A computer progr…
Significant Lexical Similarities between a Language of Brazil and Some Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania: From Typolocial Perspective
The paper examines computationally the similarities in 100-word lists of basic vocabulary between Xokleng (a language of southeastern Brazil, classified as Macro-Ge) and Tagalog and Malay (languages of Southeast Asia) and Fijian, Samoan, and Hawaiian (languages of Oceania). It is found that in all five pair-wise comparisons the resemblances found are statistically highly significant (i.e., are greater-than-chance). A plausible explanation of thes…
The Kaingang (Brazil) Seem Linguistically Related to Oceanic Populations
The Southern-Ge Kaingang people, comprising the Xokleng and the Kaingang, presently reside in the states of Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul in south-eastern Brazil, and speak two closely related languages, forming the Kaingang language family. No external relationship of the Kaingang people, or their language, with peoples or languages outside of Ge, or Amerind(ian) more generally, has so far been suggested. In a previous…
The Kaingang-Austronesian Relationship Hypothesis: Evidence from Kinship Terminology
The Kaingang language family comprises two closely related languages, Xokleng and Kaingang, spoken in south-eastern Brazil, on the Atlantic, and the Austronesian family includes a large number of languages, covering a vast area in the Pacific. Our previous investigations reveal significant similarities between the Kaingang and Austronesian language families in both grammar and lexicon, suggesting the existence of phylogenetic affiliation between …
Componential Analysis of Kin Terms - Some Problems and their Solutions
Componential analysis of kinship vocabulary has a long tradition, but a look at the practicing of the method reveals two basic problems. The first pertains to ensuring “consistent” kin term definitions (i.e., definitions with necessary and sufficient components), and the second to the discovery and handling of multiple solutions to kinship systems. The paper introduces a computer program implemented to handle these two problems, and in general, d…
On Colexification among Basic Vocabulary
The paper presents a typological database of colexifications among basic vocabulary, derived from the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) database. Some uses of the inventory of colexifications are proposed. Some heuristics are introduced regarding the discrimination of polysemy from homonymy in a typological database, as well as such pertaining to the determination of common membership of two languages in the same language family. In pa…
Language Universals: Their Discovery and Verbalization by Machine
The task of discovering language universals from data is computationally complex and hence difficult to solve manually. To handle this problem I introduce a computational system that can discover all universals in a given database and verbalize them in English. Additionally, if this database has been previously analyzed by a human, the system can compare the discoveries of the human and machine agent and produce a whole article with its results. …
Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Language and cultural evolution (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works)