A Markov chain analysis of a network generated by the matrix of lexical distances allows for representing complex relationships between different languages in a language family geometrically, in terms of distances and angles. The fully automated method for construction of language taxonomy is tested on a sample of fifty languages of the Indo-European language group and applied to a sample of fifty languages of the Austronesian language group. The Anatolian and Kurgan hypotheses of the Indo-European origin and the ‘express train’ model of the Polynesian origin are thoroughly discussed.
Titolo: | Geometric representations of language taxonomies |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
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Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11584/170 |
Tipologia: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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