Persistent topology of syntax

DOI10.1007/S11786-017-0329-XMaRDI QIDQ1993363zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 5 November 2018

Published in Mathematics in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05134, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/79011/

zbMATH Keywords

persistent homologysyntaxlinguistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Data structures (68P05) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Linguistics (91F20)

Abstract: We study the persistent homology of the data set of syntactic parameters of the world languages. We show that, while homology generators behave erratically over the whole data set, non-trivial persistent homology appears when one restricts to specific language families. Different families exhibit different persistent homology. We focus on the cases of the Indo-European and the Niger-Congo families, for which we compare persistent homology over different cluster filtering values. We investigate the possible significance, in historical linguistic terms, of the presence of persistent generators of the first homology. In particular, we show that the persistent first homology generator we find in the Indo-European family is not due (as one might guess) to the Anglo-Norman bridge in the Indo-European phylogenetic network, but is related to the position of Ancient Greek and the Hellenic branch within the network.

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