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Johannes Dellert develops a computational approach to the movement of vocabulary between languages. The book connects historical linguistics with information theory and causal inference, asking how lexical evidence can help distinguish inherited relationships from the effects of contact.
Foundational chapters introduce linguistic history, causal models and information-theoretic concepts before the discussion turns to algorithms and their evaluation. The methods are applied to lexical data in order to reconstruct directional patterns of contact and transmission.
This complete 2019 monograph extends the author’s July 2017 dissertation. It retains the original examples, mathematical development, experiments, figures and references.
Johannes Dellert. Information-Theoretic Causal Inference of Lexical Flow. Language Science Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3247415. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Cover and design: Ulrike Harbort. Typesetting: Johannes Dellert. Original data credits retained.