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Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: Reconciling Computational and Classical Approaches in Historical Linguistics

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Project "CALC" data sheet

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Coordinator
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV 

Organization address
address: HOFGARTENSTRASSE 8
city: Munich
postcode: 80539
website: www.mpg.de

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 Coordinator Country Germany [DE]
 Total cost 1˙499˙437 €
 EC max contribution 1˙499˙437 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-04-01   to  2022-03-31

 Partnership

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1    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV DE (Munich) coordinator 1˙499˙437.00

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 Project objective

By comparing the languages of the world, we gain invaluable insights into human prehistory, predating the appearance of written records by thousands of years. The traditional methods for language comparison are based on manual data inspection. With more and more data available, they reach their practical limits. Computer applications, however, are not capable of replacing experts' experience and intuition. In a situation where computers cannot replace experts and experts do not have enough time to analyse the massive amounts of data, a new framework, neither completely computer-driven, nor ignorant of the help computers provide, becomes urgent. Such frameworks are well-established in biology and translation, where computational tools cannot provide the accuracy needed to arrive at convincing results, but do assist humans to digest large data sets.

This project establishes a computer-assisted framework for historical linguistics. We pursue an interdisciplinary approach that adapts methods from computer science and bioinformatics for the use in historical linguistics. While purely computational approaches are common today, the project focuses on the communication between classical and computational linguists, developing interfaces that allow historical linguists to produce their data in machine readable formats while at the same time presenting the results of computational analyses in a transparent and human-readable way.

As a litmus test which proves the suitability of the new framework, the project will create an etymological database of Sino-Tibetan languages. The abundance of language contact and the peculiarity of complex processes of language change in which sporadic patterns of morphological change mask regular patterns of sound change make the Sino-Tibetan language family an ideal test case for a new overarching framework that combines the best of two worlds: the experience of experts and the consistency of computational models.

 Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Data Management Plan Open Research Data Pilot 2019-05-31 11:50:01

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 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Johann-Mattis List
Beyond edit distances: Comparing linguistic reconstruction systems
published pages: 247-258, ISSN: 0301-4428, DOI: 10.1515/tl-2019-0016
Theoretical Linguistics 45/3-4 2020-04-15
2020 Justin M. Power, Guido W. Grimm, Johann-Mattis List
Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages
published pages: 191100, ISSN: 2054-5703, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191100
Royal Society Open Science 7/1 2020-04-15
2019 Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts, Teague R. Henry, Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel, Peter J. Mucha, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray, Kristen A. Lindquist
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure
published pages: 1517-1522, ISSN: 0036-8075, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw8160
Science 366/6472 2020-04-15
2020 Christoph Rzymski, Tiago Tresoldi, Simon J. Greenhill, Mei-Shin Wu, Nathanael E. Schweikhard, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Volker Gast, Timotheus A. Bodt, Abbie Hantgan, Gereon A. Kaiping, Sophie Chang, Yunfan Lai, Natalia Morozova, Heini Arjava, Nataliia Hübler, Ezequiel Koile, Steve Pepper, Mariann Proos, Briana Van Epps, Ingrid Blanco, Carolin Hundt, Sergei Monakhov, Kristina Pianykh, Sallona Rame
The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies
published pages: , ISSN: 2052-4463, DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0341-x
Scientific Data 7/1 2020-04-15
2020 Tiago Tresoldi
DAFSA: a Python library for Deterministic Acyclic Finite State Automata
published pages: 1986, ISSN: 2475-9066, DOI: 10.21105/joss.01986
Journal of Open Source Software 5/46 2020-04-15
2019 List, J.; Lai, Y.; Starostin, G.
Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area
published pages: , ISSN: 2219-4029, DOI: 10.17617/2.3149507
Journal of Language Relationship 1 2019-10-17
2019 List, J.; Hill, N.; Foster, C.
Towards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in Chinese historical phonology (and beyond)
published pages: , ISSN: 2219-4029, DOI: 10.17617/2.3149513
Journal of Language Relationship 2 2019-10-17
2019 Zhang, S.; Guillaume, J.; Lai, Y.
A study of cognates between Gyalrong and Old Chinese
published pages: , ISSN: 2219-4029, DOI: 10.17617/2.3149499
Journal of Language Relationship 1 2019-10-17
2019 Johann‐Mattis List
Automated methods for the investigation of language contact, with a focus on lexical borrowing
published pages: , ISSN: 1749-818X, DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12355
Language and Linguistics Compass 2019-10-17
2019 Guillaume Jacques, Johann-Mattis List
Save the trees
published pages: 128-166, ISSN: 2210-2116, DOI: 10.1075/jhl.17008.mat
Journal of Historical Linguistics 9/1 2019-08-29
2018 Cormac Anderson, Tiago Tresoldi, Thiago Chacon, Anne-Maria Fehn, Mary Walworth, Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
A cross-linguistic database of phonetic transcription systems
published pages: 21-53, ISSN: 2449-7525, DOI: 10.2478/yplm-2018-0002
Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting 4/1 2019-08-29
2019 Johann-Mattis List
Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns across Multiple Languages
published pages: 137-161, ISSN: 0891-2017, DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00344
Computational Linguistics 45/1 2019-08-29
2017 List, J.
A web-based interactive tool for creating, inspecting, editing, and publishing etymological datasets
published pages: 9-12, ISSN: , DOI:
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. System Demonstrations 2017 2019-06-13
2018 Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Cormac Anderson, Thomas Mayer, Tiago Tresoldi, Robert Forkel
CLICS2: An improved database of cross-linguistic colexifications assembling lexical data with the help of cross-linguistic data formats
published pages: 277-306, ISSN: 1613-415X, DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2018-0010
Linguistic Typology 22/2 2019-06-13
2018 List , Johann-Mattis
More on Network Approaches in Historical Chinese Phonology (音韻學)
published pages: 157-174, ISSN: , DOI:
LFK Society Young Scholars Symposium 2 2019-06-13
2018 Tim Bodt, Nathan W. Hill, Johann-Mattis
Prediction experiment for missing words in Kho-Bwa language data
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1451176
Open Science Framework Preregistrations 10/05 2019-04-18
2017 Johann-Mattis List
How Well Do Automatic Methods for Language Comparison Work?
published pages: , ISSN: 2510-5183, DOI: 10.21036/LTPUB10576
Latest Thinking 2019-04-18
2018 Yunfan Lai
Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation
published pages: 219–262, ISSN: 2214-5907, DOI:
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41.2 2019-04-18
2018 Johann-Mattis List
Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics
published pages: , ISSN: 2366-2409, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1474751
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 10 2019-04-18
2018 Rama, Taraka; List, Johann-Mattis; Wahle, Johannes; Jäger, Gerhard
Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?
published pages: 393-400, ISSN: , DOI:
Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics 2019-04-18
2017 Nathan W. Hill, Johann-Mattis List
Challenges of annotation and analysis in computer-assisted language comparison: A case study on Burmish languages
published pages: 47-76, ISSN: 2449-7525, DOI: 10.1515/yplm-2017-0003
Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting 3/1 2019-04-18
2018 Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, Russell D. Gray
Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics
published pages: 180205, ISSN: 2052-4463, DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.205
Scientific Data 5 2019-04-18
2018 Gerhard Jäger, Johann-Mattis List
Using ancestral state reconstruction methods for onomasiological reconstruction in multilingual word lists
published pages: 22-54, ISSN: 2210-5824, DOI: 10.1163/22105832-00801002
Language Dynamics and Change 8/1 2019-04-18
2019 Laurent Sagart, Guillaume Jacques, Yunfan Lai, Robin J. Ryder, Valentin Thouzeau, Simon J. Greenhill, Johann-Mattis List
Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan
published pages: 10317-10322, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817972116
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116/21 2019-08-29
2019 Taraka Rama and Johann-Mattis List
An automated framework for fast cognate detection and Bayesian phylogenetic inference in computational historical linguistics
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:
57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2019-08-29

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