Historical language comparison opens windows onto a human past, long before the
availability of written records. Since traditional language comparison within the framework of …

The amount of available digital data for the languages of the world is constantly increasing.
Unfortunately, most of the digital data are provided in a large variety of formats and therefore …

Abstract The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (CLICS), has established a
computer-assisted framework for the interactive representation of cross-linguistic …

The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has
unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the …

With increasing amounts of digitally available data from all over the world, manual
annotation of cognates in multi-lingual word lists becomes more and more time-consuming …

Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use
them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical …

Word formation plays a central role in human language. Yet computational approaches to
historical linguistics often pay little attention to it. This means that the detailed findings of …

The history of the language families in Lowland South America remains an understudied
area of historical linguistics. Panoan and Tacanan, two language families from this area …

Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been
few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets. Moreover, none …

Although it is well‐known to most historical linguists that the comparative method could in
principle be used to predict hitherto unobserved words in genetically related languages, the …