Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central ...

Researchers have tested the capacity of different computational approaches to detect cognates with striking success rates: The best-performing method could detect word relationships with an accuracy ...

Historical, comparative and typological linguistics collectively constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour aimed at reconstructing language histories, excavating systematic patterns across diverse ...

International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 85, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 123-161 (39 pages) Hierarchical argument marking systems have long been treated as exceptions in alignment typology ...

Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the great intellectual developments of the early ...