The Uralic language family : facts, myths and statistics
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.
xxiii, 335 p. : il., map ; 23 cm
9780631231707, 0631231706
803186861
Acknowledgements. List of Tables. List of Figures. Abbreviations. Grammatical Abbreviations. Abbreviations of Mjor Journals and Dictionaries. Transcription and References. 1. Introduction. 2. The Historical Foundation of the Uralic Paradigm. 3. Modern Interpretations of the Uralic Paradigm. 4. Reconstructing the Sound Structure and Lexicon of the Uralic Family tree. 5. False Matches or Genuine Linguistic Correlations?. 6. Borrowed or Inherited?. 7.The Antiquity of Proto-Uralic. 8. Morphology. 9. Completing the Picture: Proper Names, Archaeology and Genetics. 10. Summary and Conclusion. Map. Appendices. Notes. References. Indexes.