Phylogenetics

There’s no escaping phylogenetics

The comparative method depends crucially on the phylogenetic tree of the languages under comparison, but in many linguistic families, including Indo-European, the true tree is unknown. To circumvent this issue, frequency heuristics have been devised …

Linguistic phylogenetics

Winter 2022

Workshop on Bayesian phylolinguistics

Correlated grammaticalization

Introduction to historical linguistics

Winter 2021

Correlated grammaticalization

One of the central goals of historical linguistics is to distinguish probable from improbable linguistic changes. This includes not only individual changes, but also interactions among changes (i.e., whether one change makes another more or less …

Indo-European phylogenetics with R

The last twenty or so years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of computational methods for inferring linguistic phylogenies. Although the results of this research have been controversial, the methods themselves are an undeniable boon for …

Statistical phylogenetics

Spring 2020

Ancestral state estimation in Indo-European and beyond

Winter 2020

Indo-European phylogenetics

Fall 2018