Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) are endowed with several attributes that can be
beneficial for host plants. They opened myriad doors toward green technology approach to …

Translation has played an important role in trade, law, commerce, politics, and literature for
thousands of years. Translators have always tried to be invisible; ideal translations should …

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 …

While language contact has so far been predominantly studied on the basis of detailed case
studies, the emergence of methods for phylogenetic reconstruction and automated word …

This interdisciplinary study allowed me to establish, on the basis of linguistic, genetic,
archaeological, historical and religious data, that linguistic concordances between Gaulish …

Background Curious parallels between the processes of species and language evolution
have been observed by many researchers. Retracing the evolution of Indo-European (IE) …

A number of scholars have proposed models of cultural evolution whereby entities defined
by socio-economic variables held at group levels evolve in a branching or cladogenetic …

The use of computational methods in historical linguistics increased during the last years.
Phylogenetic methods, which explore the evolutionary history and relationships among …

Abstract In 2006, Warnow, Evans, Ringe, and Nakhleh proposed a stochastic model
(hereafter, the WERN 2006 model) of multi-state linguistic character evolution that allowed …

Due to the increasing amount of large digitally available datasets, computational
approaches play an increasingly important role in historical linguistics, and many attempts …