Publications

Book chapter

  • Creating a Database of Proto-Dravidian Lexicon forthcoming
    Merriam, L.L. — One chapter in an edited volume on Indian linguistics. Expected fall 2026.
    Written during a research internship at the Technische Universität Berlin under the supervision of Andreas Fuls and Martin Kada, documenting the methodology and findings of building a structured lexical database of reconstructed Proto-Dravidian.

Journal articles

  • Identifying Candidate Syllabic Sign Pairs in the Indus Script: A Computational Analysis of High-Frequency Sign Pairs under review
    Merriam, L.L. — Under peer review, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
  • The Evolution of Written Chinese (1910–1945): A Computational Study of Newspapers under review
    Merriam, L.L. — Under peer review, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities Research Square preprint →
  • Computational Analysis of the Indus Script: Identifying Sign Functions in Logo-Syllabic Writing Systems
    Merriam, L.L. and Khanna, R.A. — International Journal of Computer Applications, December 2025; 187(64):19–22. DOI: 10.5120/ijca2025926075 →

Preprints