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 attention in the popular media. Scientific linguists have not been impressed for a variety of reasons. Though no two of the publications in question exhibit exactly the same weaknesses, all can be impugned on one or more of the following grounds: the linguistic data employed have not been adequately analyzed, or—in some cases—even competently analyzed; the model of language change employed has not been shown to fit the known facts of language change; attempts to fix the dates of prehistoric languages have ignored the fatal shortcomings of glottochronology discovered by Bergsland and Vogt (1962; see further §4); the researchers assume that vocabulary replacement is governed by a LEXICAL CLOCK (similar to the controversial MOLECULAR CLOCK posited by some biological cladists); and/or the data set used is too small to yield statistically reliable conclusions

Focus (optics) · Historical linguistics · Linguistics · Set (abstract data type) · Variety (cybernetics) · Vocabulary · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistics and language evolution · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy

• Phylogenetic and areal models of Indo-European relatedness

  Open Access•Bridget Drinka•Journal of Language Contact•2013

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• Historical Linguistics

  Open Access•Sheila Embleton, Sheila M Embleton•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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• Perfect Phylogenetic Networks

  Open Access•Luay Nakhleh, Don Ringe et al.•Language•2005

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• An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West

  Open Access•Patrick Sims-Williams•Cambridge Archaeological Journal•2020

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• Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny

  Open Access•J Nichols, Tandy Warnow•Language and Linguistics Compass•2008

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• Zur sprachlichen Einordnung des Lepontischen

  Jürgen Uhlich•Akten des Zweiten Deutschen…•1999

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• The Dialects of Ancient Gaul

  Joshua Whatmough•Dialects of Ancient Gaul•1970

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• Bilingualism and the Latin Language

  Open Access•J N Adams•Bilingualism and the Latin Language•2003

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• Toward a phylogenetic chronology of ancient Gaulish, Celtic, and Indo-European

  Open Access•Peter Forster, Alfréd Tóth•Proceedings of the National…•2003

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• Lateinisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch

  Edgar H Sturtevant, Johannes Baptista Hofmann et al.•The Classical Weekly•1932

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• Indo‐European and Computational Cladistics

  Open Access•Don Ringe, Tandy Warnow et al.•Transactions of the Philological…•2002

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• Cladistic analysis of languages

  Open Access•Kateřina Rexová, Daniel Frynta et al.•Cladistics•2003

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• The Linguistic Position of Lepontic

  Open Access•Joseph F Eska•Proceedings of the Annual Meeting…•1998

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• An Indoeuropean Classification

  Isidore Dyen, Joseph B Kruskal et al.•Transactions of the American…•1992

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• Archaeology and Language

  C Gamble, Colin Renfrew•The South African Archaeological…•1988

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• Bilingualism and the Latin Language

  Andrew R Dyck, J N Adams et al.•The Classical World•2006

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• On the Validity of Glottochronology

  Knut Bergsland, Hans Vogt•Current Anthropology•1962

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