Gerd Carling

Historical linguistics and phylogenetics,

including Germanic and South American linguistics

2023. Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Olof Lundgren, Victor Bogren Svensson, and Johan Frid. The evolution of lexical semantics. Dynamics, directionality, and drift. Frontiers in Comnunication 8, 2023. DOI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1126249/full

2022. Carling, G., Cathcart, C. & Round, E.. Reconstructing the origin of language families and variation. Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Gontier, N., Lock, A. & Sinha, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks). DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.34

2021. Allassonnière-Tang, M., Lundgren, O., Robbers, M., Cronhamn, S., Larsson, F., Her, O.-S., Hammarström, H. & Carling, G. Expansion by migration and diffusion by contact is a source to the global diversity of linguistic nominal categorization systems. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 1-6. Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-01003-5

Link to data and code on GitHub.

2021. Carling, Gerd* and Chundra Cathcart. Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar. Language 97(3). DOI: 10.1353/lan.2021.0047.

Link to data and code on GitHub and Zenodo.

2021. Carling, Gerd* and Chundra Cathcart. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns. Diachronica, July 23. https://benjamins.com/catalog/dia.19043.car

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2021. Van Epps, Briana, Gerd Carling*, and Yair Sapir, 'Gender assignment in six North Scandinavian languages: Patterns of variation and change', Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33 (3), 264-315. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542720000173

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2021. Carling, Gerd. Caucasian Typology and Indo-European reconstruction. In: Christopher Berglund, Katrine Gotfredsen, Jean Hudson & Bo Peterson (eds.) Language and Society in the Caucasus. Understanding the Past, Navigating the Present. Festschrift for Karina Vamling. Lund: Universus Academic Press, 47-58.

2021. Dellert, Johannes , Niklas Erben Johansson , Johan Frid and Gerd Carling *. Preferred sound groups of vocal iconicity reflect evolutionary mechanisms of sound stability and first language acquisition: evidence from Eurasia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 326(1874). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0190

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2021. Carling, Gerd*. A dangerous story : The linguistic behaviour of the category sharp cutting implements. I Garnier, R. (Red.) Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Loanwords and Substrata : Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Limoges (5th - 7th Jun, 2018) (pp. 121-149), 164. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.

Carling Gerd, Rob Verhoeven, Filip Larsson, Olof Lundgren & Linus Nilsson (2021). New functions and updates of the resource DiACL – Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (Version 2.1). In: Erica Biagetti, Chiara Zanchi & Silvia Luraghi (eds.) Building New Resources for Historical Linguistics. Pavia: Pavia University Press, 125-136. https://www.paviauniversitypress.it/catalogo/building-new-resources-for-historical-linguistics/5690

2020. Niklas Erben Johansson*, Andrey Anikin, Gerd Carling and Arthur Holmer. The typology of sound symbolism: defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features. Linguistic Typology 2020. DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2034

2019. Van Epps, Briana, and Gerd Carling. Patterns of gender assignment in the Jamtlandic variety of Scandinavian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 2019, 1-33.

2019. Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Robert Farren, Elnur Aliyev, Johan Frid. The causality of borrowing: lexical loans in Eurasian languages. PLOS ONE 14(10):e0223588. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.02235882019.

2019. Carling, Gerd et al. Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures. Vol. 1 Europe, Caucasus, West and South Asia. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter (780p.).
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2019. Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Love Eriksen, Robert Farren, Niklas Johansson, Joost van de Weijer. The Cultural Lexicon of Indo-European in Europe: Quantifying Stability and Change. In: Guus Kroonen, James P. Mallory and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Talking Neolithic: Proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European origins held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No.65, 39-68.

2018. Cathcart, Chundra, Gerd Carling, Filip Larsson, Niklas Johansson, and Erich Round. Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: an Indo-European case study. Diachronica 35(1), 1-34.

2018. Carling, Gerd, Filip Larsson, Chundra Cathcart, Niklas Johansson, Arthur Holmer, Erich Round, Rob Verhoeven. Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL) – A Database for Ancient Language Typology. PLOS One 13(10).

2017. Carling, Gerd (ed.). DiACL - Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics Online. Lund University. https://diacl.ht.lu.se/, https://snd.gu.se/sv/catalogue/study/ext0269.

2017. Carling, Gerd (ed.). DiACL - Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics Online. Lund University. Database with lexical and typological data from 500 languages of 17 families. https://diacl.ht.lu.se/ .

2017. Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Elis Jarl Skute, and Wary Kamaiurá. Deixis in narrative. A study of Kamiurá, a Tupí-Guaraní language of Upper Xingú, Brazil. In Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 9(1), s. 13-48.

2017. Etymology and iconicity in onomatopoeia and sound symbolism. A Germanic case study. In Birgit Anette Olsen (ed.): Etymology and the European Lexicon, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 93-103.

2016. Language: the role of culture and environment in proto-vocabularies. In Sonesson, Göran (ed.): Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution. Peter Lang, 83-121.

2015. Niklas Johansson & Gerd Carling. The De-Iconization and Rebuilding of Iconicity in Spatial Deixis. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 47.1, 4-32. DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2015.1006830.

2014. Carling, Gerd & Niklas Johansson. Motivated language change: processes involved in the growth and conventionalization of onomatopoeia and sound symbolism. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 46.2, 199-217. DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2014.990293

2013. Carling, Gerd, Love Eriksen, Arthur Holmer & Joost van de Weijer. Implementing the matrix model: the method of contrasting linguistic and archaeological data by means of GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan language family. In: Anju Saxena & Lars Borin (eds.) Comparing Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter.