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Introduction
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In: Journal of Historical Syntax; Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference; 1-5 ; 2163-6001 (2021)
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Formal Syntax and Deep History
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We show that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, syntactic traits, modeled here within the generative biolinguistic framework, provide insights into deep-time language history. To support this claim, we have encoded the diversity of nominal structures using 94 universally definable binary parameters, set in 69 languages spanning across up to 13 traditionally irreducible Eurasian families. We found a phylogenetic signal that distinguishes all such families and matches the family-internal tree topologies that are safely established through classical etymological methods and datasets. We have retrieved “near-perfect” phylogenies, which are essentially immune to homoplastic disruption and only moderately influenced by horizontal convergence, two factors that instead severely affect more externalized linguistic features, like sound inventories. This result allows us to draw some preliminary inferences about plausible/implausible cross-family classifications; it also provides a new source of evidence for testing the representation of diversity in syntactic theories.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.488871 https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/169292/ https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/169292/1/FormalSyntax_DeepHistory.pdf
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More rule than exception: parallel evidence of ancient migrations in grammars and genomes of Finno-Ugric speakers
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More Rule than Exception: Parallel Evidence of Ancient Migrations in Grammars and Genomes of Finno-Ugric Speakers
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In: Genes (Basel) (2020)
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Historical Bio-Linguistics : A biostatistic approach to the study of linguistic phylogenies and the correlation of genetic, linguistic and geographical data.
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Principles, Parameters, and Schemata : A radically underspecified UG
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Learning implicational models of universal grammar parameters
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Machine Learning Models of Universal Grammar Parameter Dependencies
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Mathematical modeling of grammatical diversity supports the historical reality of formal syntax ...
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Mathematical modeling of grammatical diversity supports the historical reality of formal syntax
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An interview on linguistic variation with Giuseppe Longobardi
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An interview on linguistic variation with Giuseppe Longobardi
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Across language families: Genome diversity mirrors linguistic variation within Europe
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The nature of Genitive Case
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In: http://etd.adm.unipi.it/theses/available/etd-05022013-005828/ (2013)
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