masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology

[Claire Bowern]

I don't know of any courses, but there are chapters in a couple of books
that deal with some of the methods.

Keith Johnson's Quantitative Methods in Linguists has a chapter on
historical. If I remember right it focuses on the Ringe, Warnow and
Taylor-type maximum parsimony method.
Emmanuel Paradis' book on Evolution and Phylogenetics using R has relevant
material.
Harald Baayen's Analyzing Linguistic Data with R has a chapter on clustering
and tree-inference methods.
My forthcoming edition of Terry Crowley's Historical Linguistics has a
chapter on Computational Methods, with a bit about NeighborNets and Bayesian
methods (but it's more about issues in how to code the data and less about
the mathematics),
(These are just the textbook treatments; there are other articles that would
also serve as good introductions to the methods.)

Claire
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