Gerd Carling
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerd Carling is involved.
Articles
2021 Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology, Dahl, Eystein (ed.), pp. 358–412 | Article
This paper employs phylogenetic modeling to reconstruct the alignment system of Indo-European. We use a data set of categorical morphosyntactic features, which take states such as ‘nominative-accusative’, ‘active-stative’, or ‘ergative’. We analyze these characters with a standard Bayesian… read more
2018 Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case study Diachronica 35:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Indo-European languages. We partition types of change (i.e., gain or loss) for each variant according to whether they bring about a simplification in morphosyntactic patterns that must be learned,… read more
Culture or cognition? The evolutionary dynamics of gender assignment in the Indo-European lexicon Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Gender languages assign nouns to a category, such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common. Gender assignment is complicated and difficult to learn, as languages do not have specific rules for assigning a noun to one or the other gender. This study looks at gender assignment from the perspective… read more