Gerd Carling

Historical linguistics and phylogenetics,

including Germanic and South American linguistics

2024. Carling, Gerd & Annemarie Verkerk. Editorial: The evolution of meaning: challenges in quantitative lexical typology. Frontiers in Communication 9, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1476702

2023. Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Olof Lundgren, Victor Bogren Svensson, and Johan Frid. The evolution of lexical semantics. Dynamics, directionality, and drift. Frontiers in Communication 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

Link to data and code

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

Link to data and code

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.).
Link to data

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.