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The Uralic Language Family
Facts, Myths and Statistics
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This book is ideal for general linguists, Uralic language specialists, and scholars interested in linguistic classification methods and historical linguistics.
In this detailed survey of Finnish, Hungarian, Lapp and the other Uralic Languages, Angela Marcantonio shows there is in fact no scientific evidence to support the belief that they form a genetic family. If this approach is accepted, this detailed analysis will have far-reaching consequences for other assumed language families.
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In this book, which is aimed at general linguists as well as Uralic specialists, Angela Marcantonio examines the history, phonology, morphology, lexicon and onomastics of the Uralic languages. She uses both conventional and modern statistical methods of analysis.
She shows how the belief that these languages form a genetic family is, in fact, based on an interlocking set of assumptions, which, whilst self-consistent, do not in fact have the status of scientific evidence. For example, she shows that the reconstruction of the Uralic node has more sound-laws than regular etymologies to obey them.
In addition to addressing the classification of the Uralic languages, the approach adopted in The Uralic Language Family could be applicable to other assumed families. There is an on-going debate on the suitability of the Comparative Method and its alternatives to establish language relations, and this book illuminates the various approaches using detailed evidence from an entire presumed family.
Series: Publications of the Philological Society
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ISBN: 9780631231707
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 April 2002
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 508g
Pages: 360
About the Author
Angela Marcantonio is lecturer in General Linguistics specialising in Uralic studies, at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
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