Germanic Phylogeny

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Frederik Hartmann (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas)

Germanic Phylogeny

Frederik Hartmann (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas)

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English

Oxford University Press
22 June 2023

Historical & comparative linguistics; Computational linguistics

Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic diversification more broadly, using agent-based simulation of speech communities over time. This new method is presented alongside more traditional phylogenetic inference, and the respective results are compared and evaluated. Frederik Hartmann demonstrates that the traditional and novel methods each capture different aspects of this highly complex real-world process; crucially, the new computational approach proposed here offers a new way of investigating the wave-like properties of language relatedness that were previously less accessible. As well as validating the findings of earlier research, the results of this study also generate new insights and shed light on much-debated issues in the field. The conclusion is that the break-up of Germanic should be understood as a gradual disintegration process in which tree-like branching effects are rare.

By: Frederik Hartmann (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University of North Texas)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 51
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 668g
ISBN: 9780198872733
ISBN 10: 0198872739
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series preface Acknowledgements Preface List of figures List of tables 1: Introduction 2: Data 3: Tree-based phylogenetics 4: A wave model implementation 5: Genealogical implications and Germanic phylogeny 6: Computational tree and wave models: Final remarks Appendix References Index

Frederik Hartmann is an assistant professor at the University of North Texas. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz, where he completed his PhD in 2021, and the University of Tübingen. His main research interests are the computational and quantitative analysis of historical phonology and linguistic relationships, with a specific focus on German. He is the author of The Vandalic Languages: Origins and Relationships (Winter, 2020) and of articles in Lingua, Journal of Language Evolution, and Indo-European Linguistics.

Reviews for Germanic Phylogeny

The book is fascinating in terms of both linguistic content and approach. * Bev Thurber, Linguist List * This book provides a clear view of the benefits and challenges of designing novel approaches to modeling the highly multifaceted phenomenon that is linguistic evolution. * Chundra Cathcart, Folia Linguistica Historica * Germanic phylogeny aims to fill various gaps in ourunderstanding of the development of Germanic, bringing to bear quantitative and computational methods, both established as well as novel and ambitious, on outstanding questions regarding the higher-order subgrouping of the Germanic subgroup. In this book, quantitative modeling takes center stage, and I found Germanic phylogeny to be a highly thought provoking and invigorating contributionto the Bayesian modeling of linguistic diversification. * Chundra Cathcart, De Gruyter *