Ezequiel Koile
Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 257
E-Mail:
ezequiel_koile@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, and a member of the ERC Synergy funded project "QUANTA: origin of cognitive tools for quantification".
My research interests lie in the framework of diversity linguistics, which includes historical linguistics and linguistic typology. I use a data-driven approach for the reconstruction and comparison of human languages, which includes computational and statistical methods.
In the scope of the QUANTA project, I am interested in the history and evolution of numeral systems and related quantity constructions along history at a global scale, with special focus on the contact scenarios that trigger language change in this semantic field.
Curriculum Vitae
| 2022 - present | Postdoctoral researcher at the DLCE (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany. Member of the ERC Synergy project QUANTA |
| 2019-2022 | Postdoctoral researcher, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018-2022 | External research affiliate, DLCE (MPI-SHH), Jena, Germany |
| 2019 | Statistician in the MetaLab project (ESN, Paris, France) |
| 2018 | Visiting lecturer in digital/quantitative humanities, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| 2016-2017 | Postdoctoral researcher, DLCE (MPI-SHH), Jena, Germany |
| 2016 | Postdoctoral stay, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2010-2015 | PhD in Theoretical Physics, National University of La Plata, Argentina |
| 2008 | MSc in Theoretical Physics, Balseiro Institute, Bariloche, Argentina |
| 2002-2007 | Licentiate in Physics, Balseiro Institute and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Publications & Presentations
Koile, E., Greenhill, S. J., Blasi, D. E., Bouckaert, R., & Gray, R. D. (2022). Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32): e21128531. |
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Koile, E., Chechuro, I., Moroz, G., & Daniel, M. (2022). Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages. PLoS One, 17(5): e0265460. |
Open AccessKoile, E., & Cristia, A. (2021). Toward cumulative cognitive science: a comparison of meta-analysis, mega-analysis, and hybrid approaches. Open mind: discoveries in cognitive science, 5: 00048, pp. 154-173. |
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Oskolskaya, S., Koile, E., & Robbeets, M. (2021). A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages. Diachronica, 39(1), 128-158. |
2024
Koile, E., & Moroz, G. (2024). Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 1-8. |
2022
Koile, E., Greenhill, S. J., Blasi, D. E., Bouckaert, R., & Gray, R. D. (2022). Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32): e21128531. |
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Koile, E., Chechuro, I., Moroz, G., & Daniel, M. (2022). Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages. PLoS One, 17(5): e0265460. |
2021
Koile, E., & Cristia, A. (2021). Toward cumulative cognitive science: a comparison of meta-analysis, mega-analysis, and hybrid approaches. Open mind: discoveries in cognitive science, 5: 00048, pp. 154-173. |
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Oskolskaya, S., Koile, E., & Robbeets, M. (2021). A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages. Diachronica, 39(1), 128-158. |
2020
Rzymski, C., Tresoldi, T., Greenhill, S. J., Wu, M.-S., Schweikhard, N. E., Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M., Gast, V., Bodt, T. A., Hantgan, A., Kaiping, G. A., Chang, S., Lai, Y., Morozova, N., Arjava, H., Hübler, N., Koile, E., Pepper, S., Proos, M., Epps, B. V., Blanco, I., Hundt, C., Monakhov, S., Pianykh, K., Ramesh, S., Gray, R. D., Forkel, R., & List, J.-M. (2020). The database of cross-linguistic colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies. Scientific Data, 7: 13. |
2019
Heggarty, P., Shimelman, A., Abete, G., Anderson, C., Sadowsky, S., Paschen, L., Maguire, W., Jocz, L., A., M. J. A., Wägerle, L., Appelganz, D., Silva, A. P. d. C. e., Lawyer, L. C., Cabral, A. S. A. C., Walworth, M., Michalsky, J., Koile, E., Runge, J., & Bibiko, H.-J. (2019). Sound comparisons: A new online database and resource for research in phonetic diversity. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren ( |
2015
Koile, E., Kovensky, N. & Schvellinger, M. (2015). Deep inelastic scattering cross sections from the gauge/string duality. J. High Energ. Phys. 1–37.
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Koile, E., Kovensky, N. & Schvellinger, M. (2015). Hadron structure functions at small x from string theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 1.
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2014
Koile, E., Macaluso, S. & Schvellinger, M. (2014). Deep inelastic scattering structure functions of holographic spin-1 hadrons with N f ≥ 1. J. High Energ. Phys. 166.
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2012
Koile, E., Macaluso, S. & Schvellinger, M. (2012). Deep inelastic scattering from holographic spin-one hadrons. J. High Energ. Phys. 103.
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2022
Ecological and Socio-Cultural Constraints on Linguistic Diversification: New Insights from the Bantu Expansion. Talk presented at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution, co-organized by Evolang, Protolang, and Evolinguistics, Kanazawa, Japan, 5 - 8 September, 2022.
A Comparison of Meta-Analysis, Mega-Analysis, and Hybrid Approaches in language acquisition experiments. Talk presented at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Lille, 29 Aug - 1 Sep, 2022
Stability of Lak and spatial separation among major languages of Daghestan. Talk presented at the Workshop Spatial and social separation of speech communities and language change, 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest, 24-27 August, 2022
Morphological change in Judeo-Spanish verbs. Talk presented at ICHL25: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2022, Oxford, 1-5 August 2022.
2021
Phylogeography of the Bantu Expansion, talk presented at the 15th International African Studies Conference, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and The Cloud. May 2021.
2020
Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling, talk co-presented with George Moroz, at the 53th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. SLE Platform, The Cloud. August 2020.
2019
Modern historical linguistics and phylogenetic methods, talk presented at the Workshop QuantLing@Ar, Quantitative Methods for the Language Sciences. National Library and Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2019.
2018
Bantu Expansion: A phylogeographic study, talk presented at the 51th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Tallinn, Estonia. September 2018.
Phylogeography of the Bantu expansion, talk presented at the conference Applications in Cultural Evolution, University of Tartu, Estonia. June 2018.
2017
Reconstructing Bantu expansion from linguistic phylogenies, talk presented at the Eastern Africa Workshop - Multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the spread of peoples, plants and animals in Holocene Eastern Africa. Jena, Germany. October 2017.
What determines borrowability? A quantitative cross-linguistic study, poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Zürich, Switzerland. September 2017.
What determines borrowability? A quantitative cross-linguistic study on loanwords, poster presented at Statistics of Languages: Theories and Experiments. Warsaw, Poland. July 2017.
Lexical borrowing in the world’s languages: A quantitative study of the sociolinguistic and morphosyntactic factors, talk presented at the Phylogenetic Methods in Historical Linguistics Workshop and Conference, Tübingen, Germany, March 2017.
2016
Lexical borrowing in the world’s languages: A quantitative study of the sociolinguistic factors, poster presented at The 2nd Usage-Based Linguistics Conference. Tel Aviv, Israel. June 2016.