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Temporal phylogenetic networks and logic programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2006

ESRA ERDEM ,
VLADIMIR LIFSCHITZ  and
DON RINGE
ESRA ERDEM
Affiliation:
Institute of Information Systems 184/3, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria (e-mail: [email protected])
VLADIMIR LIFSCHITZ
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
DON RINGE
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

The concept of a temporal phylogenetic network is a mathematical model of evolution of a family of natural languages. It takes into account the fact that languages can trade their characteristics with each other when linguistic communities are in contact, and also that a contact is only possible when the languages are spoken at the same time. We show how computational methods of answer set programming and constraint logic programming can be used to generate plausible conjectures about contacts between prehistoric linguistic communities, and illustrate our approach by applying it to the evolutionary history of Indo-European languages.

Keywords

phylogeneticshistorical linguisticsIndo-European languagesanswer set programmingconstraint logic programming
Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , September 2006 , pp. 539 - 558
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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