Preprints

• Tjuka, A, R. Forkel, and U.-M. List (2024): Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies. PsArXiv 2024.1. 1-15 [Preprint, under review, not peer-reviewed]https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tu74k
• List, J.-M. Open problems in computational historical linguistics [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Open Research Europe 3.201. 1-13. [Preprint, under review, not peer-reviewed] https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-201/v1
• Gong, X., N. Hill, S. Knights, and J.-M. List (2023): Computer-Assisted Approaches to Rule-Based Phonological Reconstruction. Humanities Commons 2023.1. 1-19. [Preprint, under review, not peer-reviewed] https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:51001/
• Schweikhard, N. (2021): Semantic relations in diachronic word families. Humanities Commons 0.0. . [Preprint, under review, not peer-reviewed] https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:43541/
• Anderson, C., T. Tresolid, S. Greenhill, R. Forkel, R. Gray, and J.-M. List (2021): Measuring variation in phoneme inventories. Research Square 0.0. 1-16. [Preprint, under review, not peer-reviewed] https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-891645/v1
• Jäger, G. and J.-M. List (2016): Statistical and computational elaborations of the classical comparative method. Manuscript . 1-17. [Preprint, under review, not peer-reviewed] http://lingulist.de/documents/papers/jaeger-list-2016-computational-elaborations-comparative-method.pdf

Forthcoming Publications:

• List, J.-M. (forthcoming): Computational approaches to historical language comparison. In: Bowern, C. and B. Evans (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Routledge: London and New York. 1-20.https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:45473/
• Schweikhard, N. and J.-M. List (forthcoming): Modeling word trees in historical linguistics. Preliminary ideas for the reconciliation of word trees and language trees. In: Sprach(en)forschung: Disziplinen und Interdisziplinarität. Akten der 27. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen. https://doi.org/10.17613/t4wq-h604

Publications from 2024

• Blum, F., C. Barrientos, R. Zariquiey, and J.-M. List (2024): A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America. 11.92.

Publications from 2023

• Tjuka, A., R. Forkel, and J.-M. List (forthcoming): Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Open Research Europe 2.141. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15380.2 
• List, J.-M. (2023): Evolutionary aspects of language change. In: Crest, A., M. Valković, A. Ariew, H. Desmond, P. Huneman, and T. Reydon (eds.): Evolutionary thinking across disciplines. Problems and perspectives in generalized Darwinism. Springer: Berlin and New York. 103-124.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3_6
• List, J.-M., N. Hill, R. Forkel, and F. Blum (2023): Representing and computing uncertainty in phonological reconstruction. In: : Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change. Singapur. 22-32.https://aclanthology.org/2023.lchange-1.3.pdf
• Lai, Y. and J.-M. List (2023): Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]. Open Research Europe 3.99. 1-23.https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-99/v2
• Anderson, C., T. Tresoldi, S. Greenhill, R. Forkel, R. Gray, and J.-M. List (2023): Variation in phoneme inventories: quantifying the problem and improving comparability. Journal of Language Evolution 0.0. 1-20.https://academic.oup.com/jole/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jole/lzad011/7450385?login=true
• Blum, F., C. Barrientos, A. Ingunza, D. Blasi, and R. Zariquiey (2023): Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages. Scientific Data 10.1. 1-11. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38017079/
• Blum, F. and J.-M. List (2023): Trimming Phonetic Alignments Improves the Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns from Multilingual Wordlists. In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigtyp-1.6
• Regúnaga, M. and F. Blum (2023): Introducción al dossier “Avances en lingüística andina” (1º parte). INDIANA - Estudios Antropológicos sobre América Latina y el Caribe 40.1. 25-28. https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v40i1.25-28
• Blum, F., C. Barrientos, A. Ingunza, and Z. Poirier (2023): A phylolinguistic classification of the Quechua language family. INDIANA - Anthropological Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean 40.1. 29-54. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/twu6a
• Lai, Y. (2023): Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology. Diachronica 0.0. 1-43. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.21016.lai
• Tjuka, A. (2023): Body part extensions with mặt ‘face’ in Vietnamese. In: Pattillo, K. and M. Waśniewska (eds.): Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Face’. Brill: Leiden. https://brill.com/display/book/9789004521971/BP000011.xml
• Steuer, J., B. Abdulla, J.-M. List, and D. Klakow (2023): Information-theoretic characterization of vowel harmony: A cross-linguistic study on word lists. In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics 96-109. https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigtyp-1.10
• Miller, J. and J.-M. List (2023): Detecting lexical borrowings from dominant languages in multilingual wordlists. In: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Short Papers. Association of Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.190/
• Greenhill, S., H. Haynie, R. Ross, A. Chira, J.-M. List, L. Campbell, C. Botero, and R. Gray (2023): A recent Northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family. Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0276
• Wu, M.-S. and J.-M. List (2023): Annotating cognates in phylogenetic studies of South-East Asian languages. Language Dynamics and Change 13.2. 61-197. https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/13/2/article-p161_1.xml
• Zariquiey, R., J. Vera, S. Greenhill, P. Valenzuela, R. Gray, and J.-M. List (2023): Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization. Interface Focus 13.20220053. 1-12. https://doi.org/10

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