Lexical borrowing, the transfer of words from one language to another, is one of the most
frequent processes in language evolution. In order to detect borrowings, linguists make use …

Psychologists and linguists collect various data on word and concept properties. In
psychology, scholars have accumulated norms and ratings for a large number of words in …

Introduction The directionality of semantic change is problematic in traditional comparative
models of language reconstruction. Compared to, eg, phonological and morphological …

This article investigates to what extent the semantics and the phonological forms of lexical
items are genealogically inherited or acquired through language contact. We focus on …

In this paper, we address the problem of automatically discriminating between inherited and
borrowed Latin words. We introduce a new dataset and investigate the case of Romance …

Language similarities can be caused by genetic relatedness, areal contact, universality, or
chance. Colexification, ie~ a type of similarity where a single lexical form is used to convey …

This study examines the correspondence between the borrowability indices from the
Loanwoard Typology (LWT) project and Castilianization indices from the Atlas Lingüístico …

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of
linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for …

Аннотация Цель. В данной статье рассматривается новая теория для решения давней
проблемы определения области и хронологических рамок происхождения …