Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu, Jean Leo Leonard

Languages in Space and Time (eBook, PDF)

Models and Methods from Complex Systems Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This cross-disciplinary volume provides an overview of how complexity theory and the tools of statistical mechanics can be applied to linguistic problems to help reveal language groups, and to model the evolution and competition of languages in space and time. Illustrated with a series of case studies and worked examples, it presents an interdisciplinary framework to enable researchers from the mathematical, physical and social sciences to collaborate on linguistic problems. It demonstrates the complexity of linguistic databases and provides a mathematical toolkit for analyzing and extracting useful information from them - helping to conceptualize empirical facts better than a mere ethnographic view. Providing an important bridge to facilitate collaboration between linguists and mathematical modelers, this book will stimulate new ideas and avenues for research, and will form a valuable resource for advanced students and academics working across complex systems, sociolinguistics, and language dynamics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108868525
• Artikelnr.: 70910000

Autorenporträt

Marco Patriarca got his PhD from the University of Perugia in 1993 on nonequilibrium classical and quantum diffusion. He is currently working as senior researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia. His areas of interest includes stochastic processes, diffusion processes, brownian motion , condensed matter, quantum mechanics and physics of language.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Language and languages
3. Comparison based on string metric
4. Historical glottometry
5. Introduction to languages dynamics
6. Languages evolution models
7. Languages competition models
Bibliography.