Alek Keersmaekers

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alek Keersmaekers is involved.

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Van de Velde, Freek and Alek Keersmaekers 2020 What are the determinants of survival curves of words? An evolutionary linguistics approach Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise, Gaeta, Livio (ed.), pp. 127–137 | Article
An evolutionary approach to historical linguistics can be enlightening when not only the mechanisms, but also the statistical methods are considered from neighboring disciplines. In this short paper, we apply survival analysis to investigate what factors determine the lifespan of words. Our case… read more
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