Christopher Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Universality and diversity in human song
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itself. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music appears in every society observed; that variation in musical behavior is well-characterized by three dimensions, which capture the formality, arousal, and religiosi…
The Balance‐Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference
We propose a simplified approach to matching for causal inference that simultaneously optimizes balance (similarity between the treated and control groups) and matched sample size. Existing approaches either fix the matched sample size and maximize balance or fix balance and maximize sample size, leaving analysts to settle for suboptimal solutions or attempt manual optimization by iteratively tweaking their matching method and rechecking balance.…
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean: Volume I Case Studies
This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the histories of individual languages to give a uniquely comparative diachronic perspective. In this first volume, leading experts on the history of negation in various languages h…
Contact-induced grammatical change: Towards an explicit account
Language contact plays a key part among the factors leading to change in grammars, and yet the study of syntactic change, especially in the generative or innatist tradition, has tended to neglect the role of contact in this process. At the same time, work on contact-induced change remains largely descriptive, with theoretical discussion restricted mostly to the putative limits on borrowing. This article aims at moving beyond these restrictions by…
Continuity and change in grammar
Negative -š in Palestinian (and Cairene) Arabic: Present and possible past
This article investigates the pre-history of the development in Palestinian Arabic, and to a lesser extent in Cairene Arabic, of purely postverbal negation expressed by the morpheme -š, from an earlier bipartite construction mā...-š. On the basis of existing grammatical descriptions and original grammaticality data collected by the author, two distinct and rather idiosyncratic patterns of restrictions on the innovative construction emerge in the …
The Balance‐Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference
We propose a simplified approach to matching for causal inference that simultaneously optimizes balance (similarity between the treated and control groups) and matched sample size. Existing approaches either fix the matched sample size and maximize balance or fix balance and maximize sample size, leaving analysts to settle for suboptimal solutions or attempt manual optimization by iteratively tweaking their matching method and rechecking balance.…
Continuity and change in grammar
Negative -š in Palestinian (and Cairene) Arabic: Present and possible past
This article investigates the pre-history of the development in Palestinian Arabic, and to a lesser extent in Cairene Arabic, of purely postverbal negation expressed by the morpheme -š, from an earlier bipartite construction mā...-š. On the basis of existing grammatical descriptions and original grammaticality data collected by the author, two distinct and rather idiosyncratic patterns of restrictions on the innovative construction emerge in the …
Contact-induced grammatical change: Towards an explicit account
Language contact plays a key part among the factors leading to change in grammars, and yet the study of syntactic change, especially in the generative or innatist tradition, has tended to neglect the role of contact in this process. At the same time, work on contact-induced change remains largely descriptive, with theoretical discussion restricted mostly to the putative limits on borrowing. This article aims at moving beyond these restrictions by…
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean: Volume I Case Studies
This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the histories of individual languages to give a uniquely comparative diachronic perspective. In this first volume, leading experts on the history of negation in various languages h…
The Balance‐Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference
We propose a simplified approach to matching for causal inference that simultaneously optimizes balance (similarity between the treated and control groups) and matched sample size. Existing approaches either fix the matched sample size and maximize balance or fix balance and maximize sample size, leaving analysts to settle for suboptimal solutions or attempt manual optimization by iteratively tweaking their matching method and rechecking balance.…
Universality and diversity in human song
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itself. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music appears in every society observed; that variation in musical behavior is well-characterized by three dimensions, which capture the formality, arousal, and religiosi…
Linguistics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Generative grammar (2 works) · Grammar (2 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Negation (2 works)