A5081821871- Linguistics and language evolution
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2017-2023
The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic analyses core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a farming expansion out Anatolia ~9000 years before present (yr B.P.), while others support spread horse-based pastoralism Pontic-Caspian Steppe ~6000 yr B.P. Here we an extensive database that eliminates past inconsistencies in cognate coding. Ancestry-enabled analysis this dataset indicates few ancient languages direct...
is a truth universally acknowledged that texts come in sentences and clauses. All the more so if they stem from ancient Latin or Greek sources. We learn this at school, generations before learned it too, must be true. “Traditional grammar”, however, not particularly objective neutral. It paradigm used for research teaching, thus based on specific assumptions subjective analyses. Its views may apply to certain text, but need not. The field of discourse segmentation challenges basis text-...