A. Taylor
2002
Transactions of the Philological Society 100(1):59-129, 2002
This paper reports the results of an attempt to recover the first-order subgrouping of the Indo-European family using a new computational method devised by the authors and based on a 'perfect phylogeny' algorithm. The methodology is also briefly described, and points of theory ...MORE ⇓
This paper reports the results of an attempt to recover the first-order subgrouping of the Indo-European family using a new computational method devised by the authors and based on a 'perfect phylogeny' algorithm. The methodology is also briefly described, and points of theory and methodology are addressed in connection with the experiment whose results are here reported.
1996
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of natural languagesPDF
SODA'96: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms, pages 314--322, 1996
In this paper we present a new methodology for determining the evolutionary history of related languages. Our methodology uses linguistic information encoded as qualitative characters, and provides much greater precision than previous methods. Our analysis of Indo- European (IE) ...MORE ⇓
In this paper we present a new methodology for determining the evolutionary history of related languages. Our methodology uses linguistic information encoded as qualitative characters, and provides much greater precision than previous methods. Our analysis of Indo- European (IE) languages resolves questions that have troubled scholars for over a century.