Statistical Modeling of Language Dynamics (06SM272-506)
Lecturer: PD Dr Lothar Sebastian Krapp
Times: Friday 14:15–15:45 Uhr
Room: AND-2-48 (or AND-4-53 if main room is unavailable)
Language: English
Deadlines
Room: AND-2-48 (or AND-4-53 if main room is unavailable)
Language: English
Deadlines
- Strict paper deadline: 15 September 2025! (via e-mail)
- Problem sheet 1: Friday, 04 April 2025, 14:00 (via e-mail or in person)
- Problem sheet 2: Friday, 02 May 2025, 14:00 (via e-mail or in person)
- Problem sheet 3: Friday, 23 May 2025, 14:00 (via e-mail or in person)
- Problem sheet 4: Friday, 13 June 2025, 14:00 (via e-mail)
Course material (OLAT): https://lms.uzh.ch/url/RepositoryEntry/17682891513
Dates:
- Friday, 21 February 2025, 14:00–15:45: Organisation and overview
- Friday, 28 February 2025, 14:00–15:45: Formal trees
- Friday, 07 March 2025, 14:00–15:45: Phylogenetic trees and systematics
- Friday, 14 March 2025, 14:00–15:45: Building the tree, Problem Sheet 1
- Friday, 21 March 2025, 14:00–15:45: Parsimony
- Friday, 28 March 2025, 14:15–15:45: Distance methods
- Friday, 04 April 2025, 14:00–15:45: Maximum likelihood models, Problem Sheet 2
- Friday, 11 April 2025, 14:00–15:45: Recap and exercises
- Friday, 02 May 2025, 14:00–15:45: Bayesian phylogenetics, Problem Sheet 3
- Friday, 09 May 2025, 14:00–15:45: Bayesian example and exercises
- Friday, 16 May 2025, 14:00–15:45: Continuous characters
- Friday, 23 May 2025, 14:00–15:45: Phylogenetic regression, Problem Sheet 4
- Friday, 30 May 2025, 14:00–15:45: Paper coordination
Literature:
- D. A. Baum & S. D. Smith, Tree Thinking (Roberts, Greenwood Village, 2013).
- T. Crowley and C. Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 4th edn (Oxford University Press, New York, 2010).