Chundra A. Cathcart
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chundra A. Cathcart is involved.
Articles
2021 Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology, Dahl, Eystein (ed.), pp. 358–412 | Article
This paper employs phylogenetic modeling to reconstruct the alignment system of Indo-European. We use a data set of categorical morphosyntactic features, which take states such as ‘nominative-accusative’, ‘active-stative’, or ‘ergative’. We analyze these characters with a standard Bayesian… read more
2020 A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:1, pp. 42–86 | Article
This paper uses a novel data-driven probabilistic approach to address the century-old Inner-Outer hypothesis of Indo-Aryan. I develop a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-membership model to assess the validity of this hypothesis using a large data set of automatically extracted sound changes operating… read more
2018 Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case study Diachronica 35:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Indo-European languages. We partition types of change (i.e., gain or loss) for each variant according to whether they bring about a simplification in morphosyntactic patterns that must be learned,… read more