Abstract
Computer-assisted language comparison bridges quantitative and qualitative approaches to historical and typological language comparison. The basic idea is to provide the underlying data of analyses in a format that can be read both by humans and machines, and then use dedicated workflows in which qualitative and quantitative analysis are done hand in hand. In the lecture, Johann-Mattis List will introduce the major idea of computer-assisted approaches to historical and typological language comparison and then provide some concrete examples, touching the annotation of etymological data and the interactive investigation of sound change processes in historical linguistics, as well as the investigation of cross-linguistic colexifications in linguistic typology.