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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
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> > Would you mind posting this information from Johanna
> > Nichols you refer to? I assume J. is for Johanna not
> > for Jocser, right?
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As long as inter familial contacts between IE and other families are
being discussed the following book appears to be important. As the
authors says her book can have consequences for other language
families including Indo-European.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?r=1&ean=0631231706
"Uralic Language Family: Facts, Myths and Statistics by Angela Marcantonio
es Available from our Authorized Sellers.
* Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
* Pub. Date: May 2002
* ISBN-13: 9780631231707
* 335pp
* Series: Publications of the Philological Society
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Synopsis
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.
Booknews
Analyzing the origin and nature of the Uralic languages (Finnish,
Hungarian, Estonian, Samoyed, Vogul, Ostyak, Lapp, etc.), Marcantonio
(general linguistics, U. of Rome, La Sapienza) argues that there is a
total lack of evidence for the notion that the Uralic languages form a
genetically coherent group of related languages. She distinguishes
between falsifiable scientific fact and non-falsifiable interpretation
and theory, suggesting that confusion between the two has led to the
unsupported acceptance of the genetic point of view. Utilizing
conventional linguistic methods as well as statistic methods, she
marshals the counter-evidence contradicting the mainstream theory.
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