Journal
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages 539-558Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1471068406002729
Keywords
phylogenetics; historical linguistics; Indo-European languages; answer set programming; constraint logic programming
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The concept of a temporal phylogenetic network is a mathematical model of evolution of a family of natural languages. It takes into account the fact that languages can trade their characteristics with each other when linguistic communities are in contact, and also that a contact is only possible when the languages are spoken at the same time. We show how computational methods of answer set programming and constraint logic programming can be used to generate plausible conjectures about contacts between prehistoric linguistic communities, and illustrate our approach by applying it to the evolutionary history of Indo-European languages.
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