[Fwd: 13.2319, Books: Uralic/Anthropological Ling: Mercantonio]

[Loren A. Billings]

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> LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-2319. Mon Sep 16 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

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> Date:  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:50:14 +0000
> From:  tmac at blackwellpub.com
> Subject:  Mercantonio: Anthropological Ling/Uralic Language Family
>
> Title: The Uralic Language Family
> Subtitle: Facts, Myths and Statistics
> Series Title: Publications of the Philological Society
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> Publication Year: 2002
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> Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
>            http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
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> Book URL: http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631231706
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> Author: Angela  Mercantonio
>
> Paperback: ISBN: 0631231706, Pages: 360, Price: 37.95
> Comment: *30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
>
> Abstract:
>
> 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 this book 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.
>
> Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics
>
> Language Family(ies): Uralic  (Subgroup Code: UR)
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> Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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