A wave-model approach to language subgrouping
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Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics
Papers and book chapters
Kalyan, Siva & Alexandre François. 2018. Freeing the Comparative Method from the tree model: A framework for Historical Glottometry . In Ritsuko Kikusawa & Lawrence Reid (eds), Let’s talk about trees: Genetic Relationships of Languages and Their Phylogenic Representation (Senri Ethnological Studies, 98). Ōsaka: National Museum of Ethnology. 59–89.
François, Alexandre. 2017. Méthode comparative et chaînages linguistiques: Pour un modèle diffusionniste en généalogie des langues . In Jean-Léo Léonard (ed.), Diffusion : implantation, affinités, convergence . Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, XXIV: 43–82. Louvain : Peeters.
François, Alexandre. 2014. Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification . In Claire Bowern & Bethwyn Evans (eds.), The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics , 161–189. New York: Routledge.
Case studies on various language families
Talks
2018-01, Don Daniels, Danielle Barth, Wolfgang Barth (Australian National University): “Modeling language diversification: The Sogeram case” Linguistic Society of America , Salt Lake City.
2018-01, Jens Van Gysel (University of New Mexico): “A historical glottometric account of Enlhet-Enenlhet genetic relations” SSILA (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas) , Salt Lake City.
2017-06, Alexander Elias (Uni. Leiden): “Subgrouping the Flores–Lembata languages using Historical Glottometry.” APLL9 (Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics ) , Paris.
2016-03, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft , Universität Zürich (François)
2015-07, ICHL22 , Naples, Workshop “ Non-cladistic approaches to language genealogy ” (François & Kalyan)
2015-06, “Subgrouping without trees: How the linkage model redefines the way we think of language genealogy” – conference Integrating inferences about our past: New findings and current issues in the peopling of the Pacific and SE Asia [conv. Russell Gray], Max Planck Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte, Jena (François)
2015-03, Dept Dynamique du Langage , seminar HELAN2 (François)
2015-03, Australian Languages Workshop, ANU (Kalyan): “Intersecting subgroups in the Pilbara languages”
2015-01, Société de Linguistique de Paris (François): “Méthode comparative et chaînages linguistiques : pour un modèle diffusionniste en généalogie des langues ”.
2014-12, ALS, Newcastle (Kalyan)
2014-07, Summer School “Typology and Description”, France (François): “Language genealogy and processes of diffusion ”
2014-07, CRLC, ANU (Kalyan):Intersecting subgroups in Indo-European: An application of Historical Glottometry .
2014-02, BLS, Berkeley (Kalyan & François)
2013-10, ALS, Melbourne (Kalyan & François)
2013-08, ICHL21, Oslo (François & Kalyan)
2013-04, INALCO workshop, Paris (François)
2013-02,Let’s Talk about Trees workshop, Minpaku, Ōsaka (Kalyan & François)
2012-04, LLACAN workshop, Villejuif (François)
2011-12, CRLC, ANU (François & Kalyan): “Language history in Vanuatu: The epic failure of the tree model ”
2011-10, Kioloa workshop on Vanuatu languages, ANU (François)