%0 Journal Article
%A Geisler, Hans
%A List, Johann-Mattis
%+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T Of word families and language trees: New and old metaphors in studies on language history : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-9CD3-5
%R 10.19272/202201902005
%7 2022
%D 2022
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X For a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language<br>history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family<br>tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative<br>turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors which<br>could become important in the future, we conclude that a vivid discussion about the usefulness and the concrete implications of metaphors plays a key role for the development ofmodels for language history in historical linguistics.
%K Language History, Language Evolution, History of Linguistics, Metaphors,
Historical Linguistics
%J Moderna
%V 24
%N 1-2
%& 134
%P 134 - 148
%I Fabrizio Serra
%@ 17240530
%U https://doi.org/10.17613/e5zx-1852