The Uralic Language Family
Facts, Myths and Statistics
Publications of the Philological Society
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.
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.
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.
"The Handbook of contemporary syntactic theology is an outstanding reference book and I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in theoretical syntax." Journal of Linguistics
Angela Marcantonio is lecturer in General Linguistics specialising in Uralic studies, at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
