The Comparative Linguistic Databank of Goethe University

Publications

We will here give an overview of publications using data of the CompLing Databank

Monographs

  • Carling, Gerd (2024). Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide. New York – London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-27179-8
  • Carling, Gerd (Ed.) (2019). Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures. Vol. 1 Europe, Caucasus, West and South Asia. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter (800p.). ISBN 9783110373073.

Edited monographs/e-journal issues

  • Carling, Gerd & Annemarie Verkerk (eds.) (2023). Research Topic: The Evolution of Meaning: Challenges in Quantitative Lexical Typology, Frontiers in Communication/Psychology 2023.

Journal articles

  • Carling, Gerd & Annemarie Verkerk (2024). Editorial: The evolution of meaning: challenges in quantitative lexical typology. In: Frontiers in Communication 9, 28 August 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1476702.  
  • Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Olof Lundgren, Victor Bogren Svensson & Johan Frid (2023). The evolution of lexical semantics: dynamics, directionality, and drift. Frontiers in Communication 8, 19 May 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1126249
  • Allassonnière-Tang, Marc, Olof Lundgren, Maja Robbers, Sandra Cronhamn, Filip Larsson, One-Soon Her, Harald Hammarström, & Gerd Carling (2021). Expansion by Migration and Diffusion by Contact Is a Source to the Global Diversity of Linguistic Nominal Categorization Systems. Nature Humanities & Social Science – Communications 8:331. (Journal article (paper/electronic, open access), peer review. Own role: co-author, data editor, project leader.) DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-01003-5
  • Carling, Gerd & Chundra Cathcart (2021). Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar. Language 97(3), 561-598. DOI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806348.
  • Carling, Gerd & Chundra Cathcart (2021). Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns. Diachronica 38, 358-412 (John Benjamins). DOI: https://benjamins.com/catalog/dia.19043.car.
  • Johannes Dellert, Niklas Erben Johansson, Johan Frid and Gerd Carling*. Preferred sound groups of vocal iconicity reflect evolutionary mechanisms of sound stability and first language acquisition: evidence from Eurasia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 326(1874). DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0190
  • Carling, Gerd, Briana Van Epps & Yair Sapir (2021). Gender assignment in six Scandinavian languages: Patterns of variation and change. Journal of Germanic Linguistics (Cambridge University Press). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542720000173.
  • Erben Johansson, Niklas, Andrey Anikin, Gerd Carling and Arthur Holmer (2020). The typology of sound symbolism: Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features. Linguistic Typology, March 2020 (De Gruyter). (Journal article, peer review. Own role: main supervisor, co-author, editor.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2034.
  • Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Robert Farren, Elnur Aliyev & Johan Frid (2019). The causality of borrowing: Lexical loans in Eurasian languages. PLOS ONE 14(10). DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223588.
  • Briana Van Epps, Gerd Carling (2019). Patterns of gender assignment in the Jamtlandic variety of Scandinavian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 43:1 (Cambridge University Press). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586519000209.
  • Carling, Gerd, Chundra Cathcart, Filip Larsson, Rob Verhoeven, Niklas Johansson, Arthur Holmer, Erich Round (2018). Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL) – A Database for Ancient Language Typology. PLOS ONE 13(10). DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205313.
  • Cathcart, Chundra, Gerd Carling, Filip Larsson, Niklas Johansson, and Erich Round (2018). Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: an Indo-European case study. Diachronica (John Benjamins) 35(1), 1-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.16035.cat.
  • Van Epps, Briana and Gerd Carling (2017). From three genders to two: the sociolinguistics of gender shift in the Jämtlandic dialect of Sweden. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia (Taylor & Francis), 49:1, 53-84. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2017.1286811.
  • Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Elis Jarl Skute, and Wary Kamaiurá (2017). Deixis in narrative. A study of Kamiurá, a Tupí-Guaraní language of Upper Xingú, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 9(1), s. 13-48.

Book chapters

  • Carling, Gerd & Hannes Fellner (in print). ”Tocharian”. In: Ancient Indo-European Grammars, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Carling, Gerd & Filip Larsson (2025). Proto-Languages. In: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics. Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É. Kiss, Joseph Salmons, and Alexandra Simonenko.
  • Carling, Gerd (2024). Borrowing. In: International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition, Reference Module in Social Science. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00104-6.
  • Carling, Gerd (2022). Språk – en exposé över vår mest unika förmåga. In: Klas-Göran Karlsson (ed.) Natur & Kulturs Globalhistoria, Vol. 1. Stockholm: Natur & Kultur, 29-95.
  • Carling, Gerd, Chundra Cathcart, and Erich Round (2024/2022). Reconstructing the origins of language families and variation. In: Nathalie Gontier, Andy Lock & Chris Sinha (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Variation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ahead of print. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.34.
  • Carling, Gerd, Rob Verhoeven, Filip Larsson, Olof Lundgren & Linus Nilsson (2021). New functions and updates of the resource DiACL – Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (Version 2.1). In: Erica Biagetti, Chiara Zanchi & Silvia Luraghi (eds.) Building New Resources for Historical Linguistics. Pavia: Pavia University Press, 125-136. Open access:  https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/113789825/Carling_etal_2021_New_Functions_DiACL.pdf.
  • Carling, Gerd (2021). Caucasian typology and Indo-European reconstruction. In: Christopher Berglund, Katrine Gotfredsen, Jean Hudson & Bo Peterson (eds.) Language and Society in the Caucasus. Understanding the Past, Navigating the Present. Festschrift for Karina Vamling. Lund: Universus Academic Press, 47-58.
  • Carling, Gerd (2021).  A dangerous story: The linguistic behaviour of the category sharp cutting implements. I Garnier, R. (Red.) Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Loanwords and Substrata : Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Limoges (5th – 7th Jun, 2018) (pp. 121-149), 164. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.
  • Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Rob Farren, Niklas Johansson, Joost van de Weijer (2019). The Cultural Lexicon of Indo-European in Europe: Quantifying Stability and Change. In: Guus Kroonen, James P. Mallory & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Talking Neolithic: Proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European origins held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No.65, 39-68.
  • Carling, Gerd (2018). Tocharian Syntax. In: Jared Klein, Brian Joseph & Mathias Fritz (eds.) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European. HSK 41. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter, 1352-1364.