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The languages of South America: deep families, areal relationships, and language contact University of Antwerp
Language Contact and Language Change in a Multilingual Epigraphic Corpus: The Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium B.C.E. KU Leuven
This research project focuses on the languages spoken in the Italic peninsula in the first millennium B.C.E. (in particular, Latin, Etruscan, Oscan and Umbrian) and the insights they can provide into the process of language change. Linguists have long recognised that the spread of language innovations from one language variety to another is an integral part of all language change, but the conditions which determine whether or not an innovation ...
Bantu-Ubangi language contact and the origin of labial-velar stops in Lingombe (Bantu, C41, DRC) Ghent University
Language Contact. An International Handbook Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Language Contact. An International Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current topics in research on language contact. Broadly conceived, it stands out for its international approach to language contact, complementing the theoretical state-of-the-art with examples from traditionally eclipsed areas and languages. Next to a thorough introductory overview of the ground-breaking methodological and theoretical approaches that shaped the ...
Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history : a new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective Ghent University
In this paper we present a new, lexicon-based phylogeny of 34 Southern Bantu languages, and combine it with previous insights from linguistics, archaeology, and genetics to study the history of Southern Bantu languages and their speakers. Our phylogeny shows all Southern Bantu languages to derive from a single, direct ancestor, which contrasts with archaeological evidence indicating separate migrations of Bantu speakers into Southern Africa. ...
Language contact in historical documents : the identification and co-occurrence of Egyptian transfer features in Greek documentary papyri Ghent University KU Leuven
The Egyptian-Greek contact situation has lasted almost a thousand years and many documents have been preserved to us from this period. In this paper, we apply a new quantitative approach to this rich corpus of documentary papyri to map the relationships between the linguistic variables (the variant spellings) and several non-linguistic variables. A multidimensional scaling of the co-occurrences of the linguistic variables shows that there is a ...