Visualizing the Boni dialectswith Historical Glottometry

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI:10.1075/JHL.18009.ELI

Alexander Elias

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Abstract

This paper deals with the historical relations between dialects of Boni, a Cushitic language of Kenya and Somalia. Boni forms the subject of Volume 10 of the Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya (Heine & Möhlig 1982). Heine presents evidence for three subgroups within Boni, as well as several areas of convergence between dialects belonging to different proposed subgroups. In reviewing his evidence, I find that two of the three splits are not supported by the data, and therefore his conclusions on convergence must also be reinterpreted. Given the presence of numerous intersecting isoglosses, the tree diagram is an inappropriate model for describing the relations between Boni dialects, and I turn to Historical Glottometry (Kalyan & François 2018) to provide a visualization of the data.

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博尼方言的历史透视

本文研究了肯尼亚和索马里的一种库希特语博尼语方言之间的历史关系。博尼构成了《肯尼亚语言和方言地图集》(Heine & Möhlig 1982)第10卷的主题。海涅提出了博尼语中三个亚群的证据，以及属于不同亚群的方言之间的几个融合区域。在回顾他的证据时，我发现三种分裂中有两种没有数据支持，因此他关于收敛的结论也必须重新解释。考虑到许多相交的等音损失的存在，树形图是描述博尼方言之间关系的不合适模型，我转向历史Glottometry (Kalyan & franois 2018)来提供数据的可视化。

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Journal of Historical Linguistics LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Historical Linguistics aims to publish, after peer-review, papers that make a significant contribution to the theory and/or methodology of historical linguistics. Papers dealing with any language or language family are welcome. Papers should have a diachronic orientation and should offer new perspectives, refine existing methodologies, or challenge received wisdom, on the basis of careful analysis of extant historical data. We are especially keen to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Contributions in areas such as diachronic corpus linguistics or diachronic typology are therefore particularly welcome.