Ger Reesink
Biographic Data
| ID | 803772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ger Reesink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ger |
| FAMILY NAME | Reesink |
| SIGNATURE | REESINK G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia
Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…
Shifting notions of witchcraft and adat
The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal
Trus paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their typological similarities and diferences. The East Papuan lzmguages are thought to be the descendants of the Iiu~guages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago. The Oceanic Austronesian languages are thought to have come into the area with the Lapita peoples 3,500yearsago. With this historica…
Studies in Irian Languages, Pt. 1
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia
Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…
Studies in Irian Languages, Pt. 1
The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal
Trus paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their typological similarities and diferences. The East Papuan lzmguages are thought to be the descendants of the Iiu~guages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago. The Oceanic Austronesian languages are thought to have come into the area with the Lapita peoples 3,500yearsago. With this historica…
Shifting notions of witchcraft and adat
Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia
Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of S…
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
Linguistics (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language and cultural evolution (2 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (2 works)