Linguistics from a topological viewpoint

arXiv (Cornell University)

Abstract

Typological databases in linguistics are usually categorical-valued. As a result, it is difficult to have a clear visualization of the data. In this paper, we describe a workflow to analyze the topological shapes of South American languages by applying multiple correspondence analysis technique and topological data analysis methods.

Authors 1

1. Rui Dong corresponding Aachen Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Centre for Linguistics , Leiden University , Leiden , the Netherlands