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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Date: February 24-26, 2021</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Location: Freiburg, Germany (short workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS)</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contact persons: Gerhard Jäger (</span><span class="md-link md-pair-s" spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-all;"><a href="mailto:gerhard.jaeger@uni-tuebingen.de" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(65, 131, 196); -webkit-user-drag: none;">gerhard.jaeger@uni-tuebingen.de</a></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">) and Johann-Mattis List (</span><span class="md-link md-pair-s" spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-all;"><a href="mailto:list@shh.mpg.de" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(65, 131, 196); -webkit-user-drag: none;">list@shh.mpg.de</a></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0.8em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Clear Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The emergence of data science has inspired a surge in interest in the application of quantitative and computational methods in comparative linguistics in the broad sense. By this we mean any kind of research studying features of several natural languages in parallel. High profile results touch upon three major topics:</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">statistical investigations of typological questions regarding, e.g., the (non-)universality of feature correlations,</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">probing for - possibly causal - connections between linguistic properties and extra-linguistic variables such as language community size, climate, or diet.</span></p>
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<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0.8em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Clear Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">These results are often met with a healthy skepticism within the linguistic community. It is tempting to discount the criticisms leveled against quantitative comparative linguistics — such as the insistence by practitioners of classical historical linguistics that historical linguistics must be based on the identification of sound laws — as inevitable side effects of a paradigm shift. However, computational and statistically minded comparativists do not agree among themselves regarding the standards of </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">data quality</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">model validation</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">model comparison</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">. For instance, the debate in a recent issue of </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Theoretical Linguistics</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> revealed that there is no consensus about some very profound issues pertaining the the nature and purpose of statistical models in computational historical linguistics. The open peer reviews on Dunn et al. (2011, </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nature</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">) in </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Linguistic Typology 15(2), 2011</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> revealed a similar demand for debate in typology which has not been conclusively settled so far.</span></p>
<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 4; margin: 0.8em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Clear Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for this </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">methodological discussion</span></em></span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">. It will focus on:</span></p>
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