Historical Bio-Linguistics: A biostatistic approach to the study of linguistic phylogenies and the correlation of genetic, linguistic and geographical data.

Guido Cordoni; Dimitar Lubomirov Kazakov; Giuseppe Longobardi; Cristina Guardiano

Historical Bio-Linguistics: A biostatistic approach to the study of linguistic phylogenies and the correlation of genetic, linguistic and geographical data.

Guido Cordoni, Dimitar Lubomirov Kazakov, Giuseppe Longobardi, Cristina Guardiano

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Abstract

Demographic events often leave traces in languages and genes: this prompted Darwin’s prediction that the evolutionary tree of human populations would provide the best possible phylogeny of language relationships. We tested Darwin’s expectation through long-distance genome-language comparisons across Eurasia, relying on independently assessed quantitative tools on both sides. To do so, we had to resort to a linguistic method able to compare across different families, based on abstract syntactic characters, which proved more apt for long-term historical reconstruction than phonemic ones.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2018
Event	On your doorstep: Celebrating researchers and research support at York - University of York, York, United Kingdom Duration: 15 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

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Conference	On your doorstep: Celebrating researchers and research support at York
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	York
Period	15/06/18 → 15/06/18

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Historical Bio-Linguistics: A biostatistic approach to the study of linguistic phylogenies and the correlation of genetic, linguistic and geographical data. / Cordoni, Guido ; Kazakov, Dimitar Lubomirov ; Longobardi, Giuseppe et al.
2018. Poster session presented at On your doorstep: Celebrating researchers and research support at York, York, United Kingdom.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

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