Magidow/Belinkov on #Arabic at #FuturePhilologies:

- Average lifespan of a word in the Shamela corpus is almost 1200 years.

Work in progress:

- Using a hierarchical clustering algorithm comparing word embeddings in the Shamela corpus finds three main periods. But there may be a genre effect.

After culling text reuse/quotation, more subperiods emerge, but precise distinctions are so far elusive.

But there does seem to be a pre-classical Arabic period!