Donald A Ringe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 679973 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donald A Ringe |
| PRENOMES | Donald A |
| SOBRENOME | Ringe |
| ASSINATURA | RINGE D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1953 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Addressing Polymorphism in Linguistic Phylogenetics
Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (i.e. the dates when languages split), but also for the inference of evolutionary trees (or phylogenetic networks) of language families. We propose a parametric model of language change that addresses lexical polymorphism (two or more words for a given basic meaning) based on what is known about how languages …
Diachrony and Diachronica
The year 2023 marks volume 40 of Diachronica. To mark the occasion, 40 linguists working on different aspects of language change have contributed to "40@40"providing brief vignettes about the history of the field, current questions, where current debates are strongest, and where we're headed. These contributions will be published across the next few issues of the journal. In this first set of reflections, five authors discuss a range of big pictu…
A History of English
From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Martin Haspelmath, Alan S. Kaye, Dr. Peter Forster, Joseph F. Eska, Don Ringe, Sam Epstein, Norbert Hornstein, and Mira Ariel [Correction] Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are incl…
Perfect Phylogenetic Networks
In this article we extend the model of language evolution exemplified in Ringe et al. 2002, which recovers phylogenetic trees optimized according to a criterion of weighted maximum compatibility, to include cases in which languages remain in contact and trade linguistic material as they evolve. We describe our analysis of an Indo-European (IE) dataset (originally assembled by Ringe and Taylor) based on this new model. Our study shows that this ne…
Recent Work in Computational Linguistic Phylogeny
A number of recent attempts by nonlinguists to reconstruct linguistic evolutionary trees have made news. Reconstructions of the phylogeny of the Indo-European (IE) family of languages are especially well represented; well-known examples include Rexová et al. 2003, Gray & Atkinson 2003—which is discussed by Searls (2003) and briefly reported in U.S. news & world report (10 December 2003)—and Forster & Toth 2003, which also generated considerable a…
The Mathematics of 'Amerind'
After discussion of several methodological issues, a simpfe method for evaluating nonbinary wordlist comparisons probabilistically is introduced, and the data of Joseph H. Greenberg's "Amerind Etymological Dictionary" (1987: 181-270) are evaluated by that method. It is found that the similarities Green-berg has adduced as evidence for the genetic unity of 'Amerind' fall within the range to be expected by chance alone, and concluded that Greenberg…
'Nostratic' and the Factor of Chance
The distribution of reflexes of 'Nostratic' roots among the first-order subgroups of the proposed family in Illic-Svityc (1971) is not significantly different from a binomial distribution, the type of curve described by random chance similarities of uniform probability. By contrast, Pokorny (1959) shows a very different distribution of Indo-European cognates. This graphically illustrates the fact that the resemblances between recognized language …
The Romance of Real Life
On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison
On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison
The Guardian of the Law
Tocharian Historical Phonology and Morphology
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America
Cooper Today
The two hundredth anniversary of James Fenimore Cooper's birth is an appropriate time for us to consider the current state of scholarship on his life and works. How far have we come? Where are we now? And what are the prospects for the future? Some of the conclusions are obvious. Much has been accomplished. The publication between 1960 and 1968 of the six- volume Letters and Journals put the study of Cooper's life on a firmer basis than it had ev…
Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
Head and Horn in Indo-European
The American Short Story before 1850
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant
American Gothic
The Function of Landscape in Prescott's The Conquest of Mexico
American Gothic
American Gothic
STOUT, Harry S. The New England Soul
Perfect Phylogenetic Networks
In this article we extend the model of language evolution exemplified in Ringe et al. 2002, which recovers phylogenetic trees optimized according to a criterion of weighted maximum compatibility, to include cases in which languages remain in contact and trade linguistic material as they evolve. We describe our analysis of an Indo-European (IE) dataset (originally assembled by Ringe and Taylor) based on this new model. Our study shows that this ne…
On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison
Recent Work in Computational Linguistic Phylogeny
A number of recent attempts by nonlinguists to reconstruct linguistic evolutionary trees have made news. Reconstructions of the phylogeny of the Indo-European (IE) family of languages are especially well represented; well-known examples include Rexová et al. 2003, Gray & Atkinson 2003—which is discussed by Searls (2003) and briefly reported in U.S. news & world report (10 December 2003)—and Forster & Toth 2003, which also generated considerable a…
The Guardian of the Law
American Gothic
Romantic Imagery in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
LTHOUGH KATE CHOPIN'S The Awakening has in recent years elicited considerable commentary, critics have tended to construe her theme much too narrowly. As George Arms points out in his discussion of the book, it is too often seen in terms of the question of sexual freedom,' and in at least one analysis, it is read as a strongly feminist novel.2 To be suire, some critics, like Per Seyersted, recognize that the book has broader implications than the…
New York and New England
A LTHOUGH WASHINGTON IRVING's best-known tales, Rip Van and Legend of Sleepy Hollow, have been interpreted from a number of points of view, critics have missed a significant dimension in the stories by failing to take into account a fundamental regional conflict-the mutual hostility between New York and New England-that appears not only in these two tales, but in other of works as well.' That the New York-New England conflict is basic to Legend o…
The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi
Kindred Spirits
OF the many interests which William Cullen Bryant maintained in the intellectual life of his day, perhaps the least understood is his concern with contemporary American art. For although the main facts of his personal association with the landscape artists have long been known,' critics have been slow to recognize the important relation of his artistic interests to his verse.2 During the last ten years, however, with the renewed interest in Ameri…
"The Artistry of Prescott's "The Conquest of Mexico
A S an historian who wished to reach a wider audience than one limited to members of his profession, Prescott went beyond the scientific treatment of his subject and approached his material as a literary artist. To be sure, he was determined to write an historically accurate book, but he intended also to make his work artistically successful. Such an ambition, however, not only involved the historian's necessity of adhering to incontrovertible fa…
Kindred Spirits
OF the many interests which William Cullen Bryant maintained in the intellectual life of his day, perhaps the least understood is his concern with contemporary American art. For although the main facts of his personal association with the landscape artists have long been known,' critics have been slow to recognize the important relation of his artistic interests to his verse.2 During the last ten years, however, with the renewed interest in Ameri…
William Cullen Bryant and the Science of Geology
T HAT WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT maintained an active interest in contemporary science throughout his life is a fact too well known to need documentation here. The poet himself has left an account of his introduction into the principles of medicine, chemistry, and botany,1 while his son-in-law and biographer, Parke Godwin, prints numerous letters of Bryant's friends revealing the poet as a competent, if amateur, scientist.2 Moreover, in 'his travel le…
James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole
The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi
Pike
Cooper's Littlepage Novels
A LTHOUGH THE LIlrLEPAGE NOVELS are unique among Cooper's late works in the amount of comment they have evoked, criticism of the tales has been fragmentary and inconclusive. Following Parrington's discussion, many critics stress their importance as a reflection of Cooper's alienation from his society and opposition to the Anti-Rent struggle, while those who have evaluated the tales as literature have usually praised most highly the ones in which …
Painting as Poem in the Hudson River Aesthetic
James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper
The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
New York and New England
A LTHOUGH WASHINGTON IRVING's best-known tales, Rip Van and Legend of Sleepy Hollow, have been interpreted from a number of points of view, critics have missed a significant dimension in the stories by failing to take into account a fundamental regional conflict-the mutual hostility between New York and New England-that appears not only in these two tales, but in other of works as well.' That the New York-New England conflict is basic to Legend o…
Charles Brockden Brown
Rational Fictions
The Pictorial Mode
Romantic Imagery in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
LTHOUGH KATE CHOPIN'S The Awakening has in recent years elicited considerable commentary, critics have tended to construe her theme much too narrowly. As George Arms points out in his discussion of the book, it is too often seen in terms of the question of sexual freedom,' and in at least one analysis, it is read as a strongly feminist novel.2 To be suire, some critics, like Per Seyersted, recognize that the book has broader implications than the…
The American Revolution in American Romance
W RITING ON Late American Books in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for September, I825, John Neal, an American novelist and critic living in England, observes that large amount of historical fiction had begun to be written in the United States, month of late, nay, almost every week yielding a volume or two, such as they were, of tales founded, with some regard for historical truth on the American past. favourite period, he goes on to say, would se…
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Volume III, 1849-1857
The Function of Landscape in Prescott's The Conquest of Mexico
American Gothic
American Gothic
American Gothic
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant
The American Short Story before 1850
Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
History (26 obras) · Art (24 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Literature (13 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Linguistics (8 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · American and British Literature Analysis (5 obras) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 obras)