Historical and Areal Linguistics

A test of coding procedures for lexical data with Tupí-Guaraní and Chapacuran languages

Natalia Chousou-Polydouri

Joshua Birchall

Sérgio Meira

Zachary O’Hagan

Lev Michael

2016

Recent phylogenetic studies in historical linguistics have focused on lexical data. However, the way that such data are coded into characters for phylogenetic analysis has been approached in different ways, without investigating how coding methods may affect the results. In this paper, we compare three different coding methods for lexical data (multistate meaning-based characters, binary root-meaning characters, and binary cognate characters) in a Bayesian framework, using data from the Tupí-Guaraní and Chapacuran language families as case studies. We show that, contrary to prior...

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Phonetic and Cognitive Bases of Sound Change

Reiko Kataoka

2011

Co-advisors: John Ohala and Keith Johnson

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The Functions and Evolution of Topic and Focus Markers

Paula Kadose Radetzky (Rogers)

2002

Co-Advisors: Richard Rhodes and Eve Sweetser

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Shuo Wen Jie Zi - Dianzi Ban: Digital Recension of the Eastern Han Chinese Grammaticon

Richard Sterling Cook

2003

Advisor: James Matisoff

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Cognitive Aspects of the Grammaticalization of Medieval Welsh Prepositions

Heather R. Jones

2003

Advisor: Eve Sweetser

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Yowlumne in the Twentieth Century

William F. Weigel

2005

Advisor: Leanne Hinton

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A Linguistic Analysis of Old Omagua Ecclesiastical Texts

Lev Michael

Zachary O'Hagan

2016

This monograph presents a detailed philological study of the oldest known texts written in Omagua, a Tupí-Guaraní language of western Amazonia. Produced in the 17th and/or 18th centuries by Jesuit missionaries as a central component of their evangelical work in the Gobierno de Maynas, these texts include: 1) a version of the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster); 2) a short fragment of a longer catechism; 3) a second complete catechism; and 4) a Profession of Faith. In addition, we present an analysis of brief Omagua passages found in the diary of Manuel Uriarte, a Jesuit missionary active...