David Goldstein, A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Professor of Indo-European Studies and Professor of Linguistics and Classics, has recently published a couple of articles.
- Articles are inversely associated with inflectional case in Indo-European” (Language) examines the coevolution of case loss and the rise of articles in Indo-European languages.
- “Phylogenetic inference from cognate word forms” (Journal of Language Evolution; with Shawn H. McCreight, Éva Buchi, and John P. Huelsenbeck) applies the TKF91 model of sequence evolution to infer phylogenies from sound changes in cognate word forms.