Mathematical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics

Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics.

The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem. Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages, for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a difficult problem. In this paper we report on new methods, developed by linguists Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley), ...

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Mathematical Approaches to Comparative Linguistics Tandy Warnow

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Mathematical Approaches to Comparative Linguistics

The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a di cult problem In this paper we report on new methods developed by linguists Johanna Nichols Berkeley Donald Ringe Penn and Ann Taylor Pe...

Mathematical Linguistics

For readers of traditional textbooks such as (Partee, Ter Meulen, and Wall, 1990), the term ‘mathematical linguistics’ denotes a rather narrowly circumscribed set of issues including automata theory, set theory, lambda calculus with maybe a little formal language theory thrown in. Kornai’s contribution is refreshingly different in that he treats, in this relatively compact volume, practically a...

Mathematical Methods in Linguistics

1. All other texts on the mathematics of language are now obsolete. Therefore, instead of going on about what a wonderful job Partee, ter Meulen, and Wall (henceforth, PMW) have done in some ways (breadth of coverage, much better presentation of formal semantics than is usual in books on mathematics of language, etc.), I will leave the lily ungilded, and focus on some points where the book unde...