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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">Dear
readers of Ura-List, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">and
thanks for Florian for opening the discussion! Surely this discussion will continue – please feel free to contact us directly for further questions and ideas. Below, I’ve included Florian’s questions/comments, followed by my answers. ** is there to mark the
change of the comment & answer to help reader to recognise the question from the answer.<br>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"> “As the authors of this project apparently want to generate discussion as they
insisted on spreading their news on Ura-List, I take the opportunity to comment shortly on the Diachronica paper.—“</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">That was indeed the aim. The papers are available in Diachronica
and Journal of Evolutionary Biology, but I thought that not all have access to both the papers. We think it is important to share our findings because studying makes more sense when it also reaches the audience optimally. Part of our main audience is surely
the readers of UraList. This way we can also get these valuable comments from the specialists of the field.
</span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">**</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">“Let
me say in advance, that historical-comparative linguistics is not my main field of interest and this apparently won’t change in the future. However, as I have undergone the typical historical-comparative training of the discipline and spent a decade in a department
infamously known for “revolutionary and post-revolutionary approaches to Uralic linguistics” until the retirement of its propagator, I have a hard time understanding the implications…”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">Actually I can tell you all the Great Plan, which is not a secret
at all: the Diachronica paper established the studies of “language evolution” for Uralic languages. The method and data is comparable to parallel studies on other language families, which means that there is now possibility to compare patterns of “language
evolution” against other language families and collaborate internationally. Until now, international researchers have not had access to Uralic data. Further, Uralic literature has been difficult to utilize for the researchers speaking non-Uralic languages.
We wanted to give a very short overview of the studies of Uralistics, BUT we encourage to write a thorough, up-dated review of studies in Uralistics – in English and in peer-reviewed journal. That information is needed, and I know that it would get a wide
audience and lots of references! </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">So the first step was to write this paper that explained the data
and the method and – importantly – showed that the results do not differ worryingly much from the previous results you would expect from lexical data. The second step, after the validation of the method, is using the data to actually study the macroevolutionary
patterns of language evolution. (Macroevolution =speciation and extinctions). This was initiated in Honkola et al. We will continue to compare linguistic macroevolution to biological one (please feel free to co-operate or give suggestions or comments!). However,
we will also continue to study the very basic questions asked from this kind of approach: How about network models, how about non-basic vocabulary etc. One of these papers is in peer review right now. = I do think that the implications can be large actually.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">“My
first open question is concerned with the nature of “phylogeny” propagated by these papers. Since when is language classification based exclusively on vocabulary and sound changes? Historically and theoretically, we are back in the 18th century again, perhaps
with insights in sound changes deriving from the 20th century now reproduced by statistical and biological software…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">Luckily no-one was claiming in the paper that basic vocabulary
would be the ultimate truth. In biology, people do phylogenetic research on the morphology of animals, Y-cromosome DNA, mitochondrial DNA, SNP’s…. All these approaches may produce different phylogenies (and often do). Further, if adding more species to the
data, the structure of the tree may change. This is one of the advantages of this method and comparing different data sets is generally very straightforward. With different data and results we can try to solve the puzzle of Uralic history. You can also compare
the data by asking how and when the results are similar or dissimilar. At the moment we are also collecting typological data so that we can compare it with lexical data. Surely any other data could be studied as well, and hopefully this will be done! By the
way, there is one paper written where the language history was based on structure of the languages. This paper is blamed for not using vocabulary. Maybe the point is, that “one task at the time”!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">**<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">‘”And
then, why Swadesh?”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">We have to start somewhere. The Swadesh list is generally one
of the most used basic vocabulary list in this kind of research, making it easier to compare to similar work on other languages. The paper also actually goes through TEN different sets of basic vocabulary meanings, TWO of which are Swadesh lists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">**<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">"Second,
it is quite hilarious to read the following introductory statement: „Most Uralic research remains non-quantitative… (Diachronica p. 335). Some pages later however one reads that their data set contains a 100-item data set, a 200-item data set and a 500-word
data set. Given that data for historical-comparative work is restricted, why is this new approach with 500 items any better and less „non-quantitative“? From the perspective of lexicography or corpus linguistics, 500 tokens is indeed “non-quantitative”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
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<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">This
was good point to notice and we should have chosen different wording. We meant that the data was statistically (quantitatively) analyzed, and the classification was also produced quantitatively, in this case using Bayesian phylogenetics. We had altogether
only 226 basic vocabulary meanings (not 500). We did comment on the size (quantity) of the vocabulary lists and ended up saying that the result is more or less the same with Swadesh 100, Leipzig-Jakarta (100 meanings) and Ura100 (our suggested basic vocabulary
list for the Uralic langauges) or all these combined (226 items). It has been claimed that basic vocabulary is necessarily restricted to a small number of meanings, as when we start to add items more prone to replacement we aren’t really talking about BASIC
vocabulary any more. This is why we tested how the result changes when more or less stable of the data are analysed. These tests are easy with statistical approaches, as you just need to separate an appropriate subset of the data and run the analyses again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">**<br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">“Third,
it is quite astonishing to see that output of researchers with a clear “revolutionary connotation” (Künnap & Taagepera 2004; Tambovtsev 2004) are even considered in such a paper. Apparently, the international reviewers have been unaware what happened in the
discipline in the late 1990s and the first years of the new millennium and can’t tell solid scholarship from less solid. And by the way, so did the authors of this joint paper and their “linguistic” advisers for whom quite some space is reserved…”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">Luckily we remembered to underline that this was not an exhausting
review of the literature. As stated above, a full, up-to-date review would be indeed needed! As stated in the text, the linguistics advisers checked through the basic vocabulary lists and are not (similarly to other people mentioned in the acknowledgements)
in any way responsible of any of the text. In the future, we would be happy to get co-operation either in form of co-authorship or in reading through the ms before submission. If you would like to read the text but do not want you name to be mentioned anywhere
near this approach, you can also remain an “anonymous referee”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">BTW, we got financing for a project to put the basic vocabulary
lists on the Internet alongside the correlate (cognate) data. The idea will be to provide the data for others as well AND – this could be of interest to the readers – to allow the Uralists and Fenno-Ugrists to comment on them. This will surely improve the
data as happened with Indo-European languages. This UraLex –project is indeed aiming at similar outcome as
<span style="color:#E36C0A;mso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:
191">IE-Lex.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">**<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">"Summing
up the Diachronica paper, one sees a “scientific” reproduction of a number of “scholarly assembled facts” equaling earlier scholarship which was accused of having been based on a “non-quantitative sample”. After all, it is nice to see that “scholarly work”
can indeed compete with a biological software data set analysis and one may be tempted to say that “scholarly work is indeed rather scientific”. Of course, the Diachronica paper is an instance of that kind of „science“ generally appreciated as “hard science”
as the paper tests predictions based on a sampled data set and shows different models based on different analysis. But clearly, this paper does not show anything amazingly new; it “scientifically” reproduces data which has been assembled scholarly and comes
to solutions which are not too diverging. So, all we got is „quod erum demonstrandum” now supported by software desgined by humans?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">- <span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
<br>
</span></span></span></p>
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auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">
<span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">As
stated above, we were happy not to see anything completely unexpected. It would have been very difficult to continue if the results would have contrasted completely with earlier results… I hope that I already managed to show that this approach gives new possibilities
to approach old and new questions. </span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">**<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">“Finally,
let me come back to my opening statement – in order to make such research interesting for a community of “scholars” (that’s how we are called by “scientists”), another central component of historical-comparative linguistics needs to be integrated – historical
grammar. After all, genetic classification needs both lexicon and grammar. But then, historical grammar is messy, there is more analogy, leveling etc which blurs the nice and clear
<br>
</span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">cut
lexicon and sound change picture. I wonder if this can be modeled and combined with the study one eagerly wanted to share with the community.”</span></p>
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<br>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">As
stated above, this is what we are doing now. The good thing in Bayesian phylogenetics is that it actually tells you in different ways whether you should trust the classification or not. If the data is messy, it will be seen in the overall shape, the branch
lengths, and in the posterior probabilities. And surely we will provide the ms for publication in international peer-reviewed journals - the future funding depends on number of publications. Also, it would be no science if you would not give you research for
the fellow scholars/scientist to read and comment. Science is not about saying that THIS is the one and only truth. It is always said that typological data suggests a different kind of classification than basic vocabulary. I hardly can wait to see the result!
<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">**</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US"><br>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI" lang="EN-US">“Such
a paper might indeed hold some surprises and would produce something new for the 21<sup>st</sup> century. As long as “phylogeny” is limited to vocabulary and sound change, the picture is incomplete and partial, even if it can be tested “scientifically”. After
all, the genetic unity of Uralic (and any other language family) is indeed more than vocabulary and sound change…”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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FI" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">This is indeed what the financer thought when giving us money
for collecting the typological list. However, I want to point out that language is also more than just grammar, and I would be hoping to see vocabulary data alongside grammatical data."</span></p>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FI;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US">In general, we do not wish to suppress any other research approach
in historical linguistics, but actually the opposite: We hope to lift up the research done on Uralic languages with this study field of “language evolution”. This new approach will most likely appeal to a new audience, and with this, the new audience will
hopefully also find the exhaustive work that is done in the entire field of Uralic and Fenno-Ugric studies.
<br>
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Terveisin, <br>
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<b>Lähetetty:</b> 5. marraskuuta 2013 10:12<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As the authors of this project apparently want to generate discussion as they insisted on spreading their news on Ura-List, I take the opportunity to comment shortly on the Diachronica paper. Let me say in advance, that historical-comparative
linguistics is not my main field of interest and this apparently won’t change in the future. However, as I have undergone the typical historical-comparative training of the discipline and spent a decade in a department infamously known for “revolutionary and
post-revolutionary approaches to Uralic linguistics” until the retirement of its propagator, I have a hard time understanding the implications…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My first open question is concerned with the nature of “phylogeny” propagated by these papers. Since when is language classification based exclusively on vocabulary and sound changes? Historically and theoretically, we are back in the 18th
century again, perhaps with insights in sound changes deriving from the 20th century now reproduced by statistical and biological software… And then, why Swadesh?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Second, it is quite hilarious to read the following introductory statement: „Most Uralic research remains non-quantitative… (Diachronica p. 335). Some pages later however one reads that their data set contains a 100-item data set, a 200-item
data set and a 500-word data set. Given that data for historical-comparative work is restricted, why is this new approach with 500 items any better and less „non-quantitative“? From the perspective of lexicography or corpus linguistics, 500 tokens is indeed
“non-quantitative”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Third, it is quite astonishing to see that output of researchers with a clear “revolutionary connotation” (Künnap & Taagepera 2004; Tambovtsev 2004) are even considered in such a paper. Apparently, the international reviewers have been
unaware what happened in the discipline in the late 1990s and the first years of the new millennium and can’t tell solid scholarship from less solid. And by the way, so did the authors of this joint paper and their “linguistic” advisers for whom quite some
space is reserved…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Summing up the Diachronica paper, one sees a “scientific” reproduction of a number of “scholarly assembled facts” equaling earlier scholarship which was accused of having been based on a “non-quantitative sample”. After all, it is nice
to see that “scholarly work” can indeed compete with a biological software data set analysis and one may be tempted to say that “scholarly work is indeed rather scientific”. Of course, the Diachronica paper is an instance of that kind of „science“ generally
appreciated as “hard science” as the paper tests predictions based on a sampled data set and shows different models based on different analysis. But clearly, this paper does not show anything amazingly new; it “scientifically” reproduces data which has been
assembled scholarly and comes to solutions which are not too diverging. So, all we got is „quod erum demonstrandum” now supported by software desgined by humans?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, let me come back to my opening statement – in order to make such research interesting for a community of “scholars” (that’s how we are called by “scientists”), another central component of historical-comparative linguistics needs
to be integrated – historical grammar. After all, genetic classification needs both lexicon and grammar. But then, historical grammar is messy, there is more analogy, leveling etc which blurs the nice and clear cut lexicon and sound change picture. I wonder
if this can be modeled and combined with the study one eagerly wanted to share with the community. Such a paper might indeed hold some surprises and would produce something new for the 21<sup>st</sup> century. As long as “phylogeny” is limited to vocabulary
and sound change, the picture is incomplete and partial, even if it can be tested “scientifically”. After all, the genetic unity of Uralic (and any other language family) is indeed more than vocabulary and sound change…<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4.11.2013 18:13, Johanna Laakso wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>uralilaista fylogenetiikkaa</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Päivämäärä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium">4. marraskuuta 2013 15.56.30 UTC+1.00<br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium"><b>Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium">Johanna Laakso <<a href="mailto:johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at" target="_blank">johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at</a>><br>
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Olisiko mielestäsi mahdollista ja asiallista laittaa oheiset artikkelit ura-listalle jakoon? Se voisi olla hyvä tapa saada kiinni varsin tärkeä osa juttujen lukijakuntaa! Kaikki eivät välttämättä pääse ainakaan Journal of Evolutionary Biologyyn, jos vaikka
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En muista, että saanko itse kirjoittaa listalle ja laittaa liitteitä, mutta joka tapauksessa haluan ekaksi kysyä sinulta. Samalla tulen lähettäneeksi molemmat artikkelit suoraan sinullekin (tosin voi olla, että lähetin Terhin työn jo aikaisemminkin.)<br>
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