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Introduction

The inference of evolutionary history, whether in biology or in linguistics, is aided by a carefully considered model of the evolutionary process and a reconstruction method which is expected to produce a reasonably accurate estimation of the true evolutionary history when the real data match the model assumptions and are of sufficient quantity. In molecular systematics (i.e., the inference of evolutionary histories from molecular data), much of the research effort has focused in two areas: first, the development of increasingly parameter rich models of molecular sequence evolution, and second, the development of increasingly sophisticated software tools and algorithms for reconstructing phylogenies under these models. The plethora of software for reconstructing phylogenies from molecular data is staggering. By comparison, much less has been done in historical linguistics in terms of developing statistical models of character evolution or reconstruction methods, suggesting that there is perhaps much to be gained by doing so. ...

@incollection{warnow04PhylogeneticMethods,
  author={T. Warnow and S.N. Evans and D. Ringe and L. Nakhleh},
  title={A Stochastic model of language evolution that incorporates homoplasy and borrowing},
  year={2006},
  pages={75-},
  chapter={7},
  publisher={},
  booktitle={Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/warnow04PhylogeneticMethods.html}
}

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