Hedvig Skirgård
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hedvig Skirgård is involved.
Article
2024 Disentangling Ancestral State Reconstruction in historical linguistics: Comparing classic approaches and new methods using Oceanic grammar Diachronica 41:1, pp. 46–98 | Article
Ancestral State Reconstruction (ASR) is an essential part of historical linguistics (HL). Conventional ASR in HL relies on three core principles: fewest changes on the tree, plausibility of changes and plausibility of the resulting combinations of features in proto-languages. This approach has… read more
