Person
gerd.carlingling.luse |
2021-02-24
Researcher
- General Linguistics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Director of Studies
- Cognitive Semiotics
- General Linguistics
- Phonetics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail gerd.carlingling.luse
Phone +46 46 222 99 07
Room SOL:H422a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am Associate Professor in linguistics. My main research interests are comparative and evolutionary linguistics, grammar, lexicology, and language documentation, in particular on undescribed languages. I have specialized in the production of lexica and handbooks, among others of Tocharian, for which I received a prize from Institut de France in 2008, and Scandoromani, for which I received a prize from The Royal Academy of Gustavus Adolphus in 2009. I am research leader of a team, which builds a geodatabase with lexical and typological data from Eurasia and South America. The data is used for systematic studies on language diversity by phylogenetic and phylogeographic models. I have made several research visits at other universities, e.g., as Humboldt fellow at University of Kiel and at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. I have a long-term collaboration with UMR 7528 at EPHE/Sorbonne in Paris. I am also interested in teaching and development of teaching material.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- CeDICT: A Comprehensive e-Dictionary of Tocharian (research leader)
- Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ)
- LUNDIC Lund Digital Information System of Contextualized Typology (research leader)
- Phylogenetics of the language families of Caucasia (research leader)
- Exploring symbiotic language development: studies in the integrative structures of Scandoromani (Swedish and Norwegian Traveller Romani) (research leader)
- What underlies classification? Gender assignment in semantic core vocabulary
- What underlies linguistic classification? Gender and classifiers in Indo-European and Arawakan languages
- Chronology of roots and nodes of family trees. Fine-tuning the instruments of linguistic dating (research leader)
Books (7)
- Carling, G. (2019). The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures : Vol. 1. Europe and West, Central and South Asia. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Carling, G., Demetri, M., Dimiter-Taikon, A., Lindell, L. & Schwartz, A. (2016). Romer : 500 år i Sverige. Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Carling, G., Lindell, L. & Ambrazaitis, G. (2014). Scandoromani : remnants of a mixed language. Language, Cognition and Culture. Brill.
- Carling, G., Pinault, G.-J. & Winter, W. (2009). A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A. Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Lindell, L., Thorbjörnsson-Djerf, K. & Carling, G. (2008). Ordbok över svensk romani. Resandefolkets språk och sånger. Podium, Språkrådet.
- Carling, G. (2005). Romani i svenskan. Storstadsslang och standardspråk. Carlsson Bokförlag.
- Carling, G. (2000). Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Mouton de Gruyter.
Editorships (3)
- Carling, G., Johansson, V. & Holmer, A. (2014). (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2. Lärarmaterial. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (2013). (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Carling, G. (2006). (Ed.) GIŠ.HUR gul-za-at-ta-ra. A Festschrift for Folke Josephson on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning.
Articles (18)
- Allassonnière-Tang, M., Lundgren, O., Robbers, M., Cronhamn, S., Larsson, F., Her, O.-S., Hammarström, H. & Carling, G. (2021). Expansion by migration and diffusion by contact is a source to the global diversity of linguistic nominal categorization systems. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 1-6. Springer Nature.
- Carling, G. & Cathcart, C. (2021). Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns. Diachronica, 38, 358-412. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Carling, G. & Cathcart, C. (2021). Reconstructing the Evolution of Indo-European Grammar. Language, 97, 561-598. Linguistic Society of America.
- Dellert, J., Erben Johansson, N., Frid, J. & Carling, G. (2021). Preferred sound groups of vocal iconicity reflect evolutionary mechanisms of sound stability and first language acquisition : evidence from Eurasia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376. Royal Society Publishing.
- Van Epps, B., Carling, G. & Sapir, Y. (2021). Gender assignment in six North Scandinavian languages : Patterns of variation and change. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33, 264-315. Cambridge University Press.
- Johansson, N., Anikin, A., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (2020). The typology of sound symbolism : Defining macro-concepts via their semantic and phonetic features. Linguistic Typology, 24, 253-310. De Gruyter.
- Carling, G., Cronhamn, S., Farren, R., Aliyev, E. & Frid, J. (2019). The causality of borrowing : Lexical loans in Eurasian languages. PLoS ONE, 14. Public Library of Science (PLoS).
- Van Epps, B. & Carling, G. (2019). Patterns of gender assignment in the Jamtlandic variety of Scandinavian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
- Carling, G., Larsson, F., Cathcart, C., Johansson, N., Holmer, A., Round, E. & Verhoeven, R. (2018). Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)—A database for ancient language typology. PLoS ONE, 13. Public Library of Science (PLoS).
- Cathcart, C., Carling, G., Larsson, F., Johansson, N. & Round, E. (2018). Areal pressure in grammatical evolution : An Indo-European case study. Diachronica, 35, 1-34. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Carling, G. & Cronhamn, S. (2017). Deixis in narrative : a study of Kamaiurá, a Tupí- Guaraní language of Upper Xingu, Brazil. Revista Brasilieira de Linguística Antropológica, 9, 13-48.
- Van Epps, B. & Carling, G. (2017). From three genders to two : The sociolinguistics of gender shift in the Jämtlandic dialect of Sweden. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 49, 53-84. Routledge.
- Johansson, N. & Carling, G. (2015). The De-Iconization and Rebuilding of Iconicity in Spatial Deixis. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Structural Linguistics, 47, 4-32. Routledge.
- Carling, G. & Johansson, N. (2014). Motivated language change : processes involved in the growth and conventionalization of onomatopoeia and sound symbolism. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Structural Linguistics, 46, 199-217. Routledge.
- Carling, G. (2012). Development of form and function in a case system with layers: Tocharian and Romani compared. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, 55-74. TIES.
- Carling, G. (2003). Fragments bilingues du Yogashataka: Révision commentée de l’édition de Jean Filliozat. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, 10, 37-68. TIES.
- Carling, G. (2003). New look at the Tocharian B medical manuscript IOL Toch 306 (Stein Ch.00316.a2) of the British Library – Oriental and India Office Collections. Historische Sprachforschung, 116, 75-95. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Carling, G. (1999). The Tocharian inflected adverbials and adpositions in relation to the case system. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, 8, 95-110. TIES.
Book chapters (14)
- Carling, G., Cathcart, C. & Round, E. (2022). Reconstructing the origin of language families and variation. In Gontier, N., Lock, A. & Sinha, C. (Eds.) Oxford Handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Oxford University Press.
- Carling, G. (2021). A dangerous story : The linguistic behaviour of the category sharp cutting implements. In Garnier, R. (Ed.) Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Loanwords and Substrata : Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Limoges (5th - 7th Jun, 2018) (pp. 121-149), 164. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.
- Carling, G. (2021). Caucasian Typology and Indo-European reconstruction. In Bergund, C., Gotfredsen, K., Hudson, J. & Peterson, B. (Eds.) Language and Society in the Caucasus : Understanding the Past, Navigating the Present (pp. 47-58). Universus Academic Press.
- Carling, G., Verhoeven, R., Larsson, F., Lundgren, O. & Nilsson, L. (2021). New functions and updates of the resource DiACL - Diachronic Atlas of Compartive Linguistics. In Biagetti, E., Zanchi, C. & Luraghi, S. (Eds.) Building New Resources for Historical Linguistics (pp. 125-136). Pavia University Press.
- Carling, G., van de Weijer, J., Cronhamn, S., Johansson, N. & Farren, R. (2019). The Cultural Lexicon of Indo-European in Europe : Quantifying Stability and Change. In Kroonen, G., Mallory, J. P. & Comrie, B. (Eds.) Journal of Indo-European studies, Monograph Series, Talking Neolithic : Proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European origins held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013 (pp. 39-68), 65. Journal of Indo-European Studies, Monograph Series.
- Carling, G. (2017). Tocharian syntax. In Fritz, M., Klein, J., Joseph, B. & Wenthe, M. (Eds.) Handbucher Zur Sprach- Und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics : An International Handbook (pp. 1352-1364), 2. De Gruyter.
- Carling, G. (2016). Language : the role of culture and environment in proto-vocabularies. In Dunér, D. & Sonesson, G. (Eds.) Human Lifeworlds : The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution (pp. 83-96). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Carling, G. (2013). Skriftsystem. In Victoria, J., Gerd, C. & Arthur, H. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (2013). Tankar om språk. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 299-314). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Holmer, A. & Carling, G. (2013). Språk i världen. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 91-124). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Carling, G. (2006). Notes on the syntactic functions of the Tocharian clitic pronouns. In Carling, G. (Ed.) GIŠ.HUR gul-za-at-ta-ra Festschrift for Folke Josephson (pp. 39-49). Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning.
- Carling, G. (2005). Proto-Tocharian, Common Tocharian, and Tocharian - on the value of linguistic connections in a reconstructed language. In Jones-Bley, K. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference: Los Angeles, November 5-6, 2004 (pp. 47-71). Journal of Indo-European Studies, Monograph 52.
- Carling, G. (2004). Tocharian B erkatse [A *arkäts] and related phenomena. In Hyllested, A., Jörgensen, A. R., Larsson, J. & Olander, T. (Eds.) Per Aspera ad Asteriscos. Studea Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (pp. 95-101), 112. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.
- Carling, G. (2003). Middle-passive and causative: valency-change in the Tocharian B -e-presents without initial palatalization. In Bauer, B. L. M. & Pinault, G.-J. (Eds.) Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Mouton de Gruyter.
Conference contributions (19)
- Carling, G. (accepted/in press). Interplay between lexical transitivity, morphology, and argument structure: The Tocharian system.
- Carling, G. & Allassonnière-Tang, M. (2022). Inheritability and transmissibility of linguistic and other cultural features : The coevolution of noun categorization and kinship systems.
- Carling, G., Huard, A. & Erben Johansson, N. (2022). A study in de-iconization : phonological and morphological adaptations of Indo-European bird names.
- Carling, G., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Erben Johansson, N., Appelgren, H. & Kirkegaard, R. (2021). Cultural connotations of categorizing the environment : does the presence of a linguistic gender and noun class system in any way connect to cultural feature data?.
- Carling, G., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Luraghi, S., Pydugadu, S., Lundgren, O. & Larsson, F. (2021). The lexical and typological trajectory of Indo-European gender evolution.
- Carling, G., Erben Johansson, N. & Frid, J. (2020). The evolutionary mechanisms of vocal iconicity. : A study on basic vocabulary of the Indo-European family.
- Carling, G. & Cathcart, C. (2019). Alignment stability and change: arguments from a Bayesian evolutionary angle.
- Carling, G. & Van Epps, B. (2019). Evolutionary aspects of Indo-European gender assignment.
- Carling, G., Cronhamn, S., Hammarström, H. & Van Epps, B. (2019). The mechanisms of gender assignment : An evolutionary study of the Indo-European three-gender system.
- Carling, G. & Cronhamn, S. (2018). Why do we need loans? : A comparative-contrastive study on Eurasian lexical borrowability.
- Carling, G., Cronhamn, S. & Aliyev, E. (2018). Borrowability, inheritance, and semantic change in the Indo-European and Caucasian vocabulary for hunting, farming, and technology.
- Carling, G., Cronhamn, S. & Hammarström, H. (2018). Can semantic evolution be predicted? : A case study on the Eurasian vocabularies for hunting, farming, and technology.
- Carling, G. (2017). Etymology and iconicity in onomatopoeia and sound symbolism : A Germanic case study. Etymology and the European Lexicon : Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17-22 September 2012, Copenhagen, 93-104. Reichert.
- Carling, G. (2017). The typological profile of Tocharian : The complexity underlying a quantitative, mass-based study of morphosyntactic patterns.
- Carling, G. & Cathcart, C. (2017). Contrasting models of morphosyntactic reconstruction : A comparison of results of comparative-historical and phylogenetic methods for the Indo-European family.
- Carling, G. & Cathcart, C. (2016). Can culture vocabularies replace or supplement basic vocabulary lists for measuring linguistic diversity? A study on the Indo-European and Tupí language familie.
- Carling, G., Eriksen, L., Holmer, A. & van de Weijer, J. (2013). Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model: GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages. In Borin, L. & Saxena, A. (Eds.) Approaches to measuring linguistic differences (pp. 29-56). Mouton de Gruyter.
- Carling, G. (2009). Reconsidering the system: verbal categorization and the coding of valency in Tocharian. In Rasmussen, J. E. & Olander, T. (Eds.) Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European. Methods, results and problems (pp. 49-64). Museum Tusculanum Press.
- Carling, G. (2007). The vocabulary of Tocharian medical manuscripts. In Tlalim, R. & Lo, V. (Eds.) Asian Medicine. Tradition and Modernity (pp. 323-333), 3. Brill.
Working papers (2)
- Carling, G. (2008). Phonological erosion and semantic generalization: Notes on the grammaticalization of the Tocharian case paradigm. Working papers, 53, 5-14. Lund University: Department of Linguistics.
- Carling, G. (2005). The coding of ditransitivity in Tocharian. Working Papers, 51. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
Reviews (1)
Miscellaneous (1)
Supervision at Lund University (2)
Administrative
- Director of Studies at Cognitive Semiotics, General Linguistics and Phonetics
Other tasks and qualifications
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Prize, Fondation Collette Caillat de l’Institut de France, for the book "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A, vol 1.", 2008
- Prize, The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala, for the book "Ordbok over svensk romani. Resandefolkets språk och sånger", 2009
SCHOLARLY/ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
- 2010 Elected member, Society of Science (Vetenskapssocieteten), Lund University.
- 2006 Elected associated researcher, CNRS/ Sorbonne Nouvelle/ EPHE, Paris.
- 2004 Elected collegium member, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
- 2000-2004 Elected board member, Indo-European Society/Indogermanische Gesellschaft.
EDITORIAL BOARD
- Language Dynamics and Change 2021-.
- Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 2013-.
ACADEMIC COMMISSIONS
- 2021- Director of studies, Linguistics, Phonetics, Cognitive Semiotics.
- 2014-2017 Board member, Faculty board, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, Lund University
- 2011-2014 Chair, Research board, Kristianstad University.
- 2010-2011 Board member, Research board, Kristianstad University.
- 2009-2012 Chair, Romani Studies Institute.
- 2008-2010 Board member, Infrastructure Board of the Faculty of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.
- 2006-2007 Board member, Board of the University Library, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.
Researcher
- General Linguistics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Director of Studies
- Cognitive Semiotics
- General Linguistics
- Phonetics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail gerd.carlingling.luse
Phone +46 46 222 99 07
Room SOL:H422a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20