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A bird’s-eye view on South Asian languages through LSI: Areal or genetic relationships?
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- Borin, Lars, 1957 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för svenska språket,Department of Swedish,University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden
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- Saxena, Anju (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
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- Virk, Shafqat, 1979 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för svenska språket,Department of Swedish,University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden
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- Comrie, Bernard (author)
- University of California , Santa Barbara , CA , USA
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- 2021-09-06
- 2021
- English.
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In: Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2196-0771 .- 2196-078X. ; 7:2, s. 151-185
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- We present initial exploratory work on illuminating the long-standing question of areal versus genealogical connections in South Asia using computational data visualization tools. With respect to genealogy, we focus on the subclassification of Indo-Aryan, the most ubiquitous language family of South Asia. The intent here is methodological: we explore computational methods for visualizing large datasets of linguistic features, in our case 63 features from 200 languages representing four language families of South Asia, coming out of a digitized version of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India. To this dataset we apply phylogenetic software originally developed in the context of computational biology for clustering the languages and displaying the clusters in the form of networks. We further explore multiple correspondence analysis as a way of illustrating how linguistic feature bundles correlate with extrinsically defined groupings of languages (genealogical and geographical). Finally, map visualization of combinations of linguistic features and language genealogy is suggested as an aid in distinguishing genealogical and areal features. On the whole, our results are in line with the conclusions of earlier studies: Areality and genealogy are strongly intertwined in South Asia, the traditional lower-level subclassification of Indo-Aryan is largely upheld, and there is a clearly discernible areal east–west divide cutting across language families.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- South Asian languages
- Sino-Tibetan
- Indo-Aryan
- genealogical linguistics
- contact linguistics
- language typology
- language technology
- Munda languages
- Austroasiatic
- areal linguistics
- comparative linguistics
- computational data visualization
- language contact
- linguistic genealogy
- areal linguistics
- Linguistics
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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