The final problem in my list of ten open problems in computational diversity linguistics touches upon a phenomenon that most linguists, let...

With this month's problem we are leaving the realm of modeling, which has been the basic aspect underlying the last three problems, dis...

When I was very young, maybe even before I went to school, we often played a game with my parents and grandparents, during which we had to ...

In an earlier blogpost I mentioned the now largely abandoned discipline of lexicostatistics that was in vogue in the 1950s, originally in...