Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures
Using Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry, we analyze computationally the phylogenetic tree of subfamilies of the Indo-European language family, using data of syntactic structures. The two main sources of syntactic data are the SSWL database and Longobardi’s recent data of syntactic parameters. We compu...
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| author | Shu, Kevin Ortegaray, Andrew Berwick, Robert C. Marcolli, Matilde |
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| description | Using Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry, we analyze computationally the phylogenetic tree of subfamilies of the Indo-European language family, using data of syntactic structures. The two main sources of syntactic data are the SSWL database and Longobardi’s recent data of syntactic parameters. We compute phylogenetic invariants and estimates of the Euclidean distance functions for two sets of Germanic languages, a set of Romance languages, a set of Slavic languages and a set of early Indo-European languages, and we compare the results with what is known through historical linguistics. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1329552024-06-05T20:51:41Z Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures Shu, Kevin Ortegaray, Andrew Berwick, Robert C. Marcolli, Matilde Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Using Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry, we analyze computationally the phylogenetic tree of subfamilies of the Indo-European language family, using data of syntactic structures. The two main sources of syntactic data are the SSWL database and Longobardi’s recent data of syntactic parameters. We compute phylogenetic invariants and estimates of the Euclidean distance functions for two sets of Germanic languages, a set of Romance languages, a set of Slavic languages and a set of early Indo-European languages, and we compare the results with what is known through historical linguistics. 2021-10-13T18:22:13Z 2021-10-13T18:22:13Z 2021-04 2019-01 2021-10-09T03:17:35Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1661-8270 1661-8289 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132955 Shu, K., Ortegaray, A., Berwick, R.C. et al. Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures. Math.Comput.Sci. 15, 803–857 (2021) en https://doi.org/10.1007/s11786-021-00507-2 Mathematics in Computer Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG application/pdf Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing |
| spellingShingle | Shu, Kevin Ortegaray, Andrew Berwick, Robert C. Marcolli, Matilde Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures |
| title | Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures |
| title_full | Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures |
| title_fullStr | Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures |
| title_short | Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures |
| title_sort | phylogenetics of indo european language families via an algebro geometric analysis of their syntactic structures |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132955 |
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