@article{693606,
  address    = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia},
  author     = {David Goldstein},
  journal    = {Diachronica},
  number     = {1},
  pages      = {1-45},
  publisher  = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title      = {Divergence-time estimation in Indo-European: The case of Latin},
  url        = {https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.22031.gol},
  volume     = {41},
  year       = {2024},
  abstract   = {Divergence-time estimation is one of the most important endeavors in historical linguistics. Its importance is matched only by its difficulty. As Bayesian methods of divergence-time estimation have become more common over the past two decades, a number of critical issues have come to the fore, including model sensitivity, the dependence of root-age estimates on uncertain interior-node ages, and the relationship between ancient languages and their modern counterparts. This study addresses these issues in an investigation of a particularly fraught case within Indo-European: the diversification of Latin into the Romance languages. The results of this study support a gradualist account of their formation that most likely began after 300 CE. They also bolster the view that Classical Latin is a sampled ancestor of the Romance languages (i.e., it lies along the branch leading to the Romance languages).},
  besttxt    = {ptxt2\eurasia\goldstein_latin2024.txt},
  cfn        = {eurasia\goldstein_latin2024.pdf},
  doi        = {10.1075/dia.22031.gol},
  fn         = {eurasia\goldstein_latin2024.pdf},
  hhtype     = {comparative},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {0176-4225},
  keywords   = {Indo-European, Latin, Vulgar Latin, Romance, Bayesian phylogenetics, divergence-time estimation, linguistic ancestry},
  lgcode     = {Latin [lat]},
  macro_area = {Eurasia},
  src        = {benjamins, hh}
}