Andrew Garrett Profile picture
Linguist @UCBerkeley. "Basic Yurok" (2014) and "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California" (2023).
Jul 27, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
2 great papers on IE phylogenetics. Read both!

G = Goldstein, “Divergence time estimation in IE”, in press @Diachronica2 ()

H+ = Heggarty, …, & Gray, “A hybrid model for the origin of IE”, @ScienceMagazine (https://t.co/rDHOpxmFYf)

A thread ... 1/11shorturl.at/iuITW
science.org/doi/full/10.11… @Diachronica2 @ScienceMagazine G examines Bayesian divergence-time inference & Proto-Romance. Results include: Romance lg formation “begins after 300 CE” & “Classical Latin is a sampled ancestor of the Romance languages.” This connects with H+: some of their assertions & predictions are unsupported. 2/11