Predicting language evolution: Analogy in morphological change

Outputs

Publications

Sims-Williams, H., & Zemp, M. (2024). Classical Tibetan Verbal Paradigms (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12685123

Lindsay-Smith, E., Baerman, M., Beniamine, S., Sims-Williams, H., & Round, E. R. (2024). Analogy in Inflection. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10(1), 211-231. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-040935

Smith, K., Ashton, C., & Sims-Williams, H. 2023. The relationship between frequency and irregularity in the evolution of linguistic structure: An experimental study. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mz1q97f

Invited presentations

Sims-Williams, H. 2024. Analogical generalisation and the case of scalar morphology in Seri. Invited presentation, Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh. 3 December.

Baerman, M. 2023. Incongruent Analogy. Invited seminar talk, Dept. of Linguistics, Leipzig University. 18 January.

Presentations

Baerman, M., Sims-Williams, H. and Pasquereau, J. 2024. Paradigmatic complexity as diachronic layering. Langues & Langage à la croisée des Disciplines 1. Paris. 10 September.

Sims-Williams, H., Pasquereau, J. and Baerman, M. 2024. Feature reinterpretation as a source of morphomes: the case of scalar morphology in Seri. International Morphology Meeting 21, Vienna. 28 August.

Alldrick, M. 2024. Predicting non-deterministic outcomes in overabundant paradigms. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024). Helsinki. 24 August.

Alldrick, M., 2024. Implicational hierarchies in Czech morphology. 19^th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-19). Provo, Utah. 17 August.

Sims-Williams, H., Pasquereau, J. and Baerman, M. 2024. Scalar morphology: How linguistic complexity can become redundant, yet be actively maintained by analogy. International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Madison, WI. 19 May.

Alldrick, M., 2024. The ‘dvojtvar’ in Slovak: feature or bug?. BASEES Czech-Slovak study day. Bristol. 16 May.

Alldrick, M., 2023. Clitic climbing in Czech and Slovak: a Lexical Functional Grammar approach. Kolokvium mladých jazykovedcov. Prešov. 30 November.

Sims-Williams, H., Pasquéreau, J., and Baerman, M. 2023. How analogical change can perpetuate a typologically rare morphological system. Indogermanische Gesellschaft annual Arbeitstagung on sound change and analogy, University of Cologne. 14 September.

Baerman, M. and Blum, M. 2023. An analogical bottleneck in Dinka. Indogermanische Gesellschaft annual Arbeitstagung on sound change and analogy, University of Cologne. 14 September.

Beniamine, S., Anderson, C., Carroll, M., Guzmán Naranjo, M., Herce, B., Pellegrini, M., Round, E., Sims-Williams, H., and Tresoldi, T. 2023. Paralex: a DeAR standard for rich lexicons of inflected forms. International Symposium of Morphology (ISMo) 2023. 13 September.

Sims-Williams, H. 2023. Rehabilitating non-proportional analogy. International conference of historical linguistics, Heidelberg. 4 September.

Smith, K., Ashton, C., & Sims-Williams, H. 2023. The relationship between frequency and irregularity in the evolution of linguistic structure: An experimental study. CogSci2023, Sydney. 28 July.