Terhi Honkola
Biographic Data
| ID | 6709223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terhi Honkola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Honkola |
| SIGNATURE | HONKOLA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3330-0857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Extreme events and the spread of Uralic languages
In this paper we present novel aspects concerning the possible connection between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages from western Siberia to North-East Europe. We discuss different reasons for the divergence of Proto-Uralic and the spread of the Uralic languages, and propose a scenario where the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages is connected via three themes: 1) habitat changes, 2) anim…
The language-contact landscape in the Baltics during the first millennium BC
It is well known that Finnic obtained a large number of loanwords from both Germanic and Baltic, and inferences about the nature of these contacts and the lives of the people speaking these languages have been made based on the existing loanword material. In this paper we go deeper into the topic via a novel combination of three aspects. First, we divided Finnic into the stages Early, Middle, and Late Proto-Finnic and focused specifically on Germ…
An areal-etymological approach to semantic reconstruction of Proto-Uralic kin terms
Languages vary in how they order their kin terms. Kin terms and systems in Uralic languages have changed considerably over time, which has caused challenges for the reconstruction of Proto-Uralic kin terms. There are terms that cannot be reconstructed altogether, terms that can be fairly reliably reconstructed both phonologically and semantically, and terms that, while being easily reconstructed phonologically, exhibit semantic variation that is …
Pottery, language and iron
This paper examines two Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age pottery types in Finland, Luukonsaari and Sirnihta Wares, which were previously poorly defined and dated. New radiocarbon dates and Bayesian modelling place Luukonsaari Ware in c. 2800–2100 cal BP and Sirnihta Ware in c. 2000–1450 cal BP. These periods were crucial for the emergence of coastal farming and inland hunter-gatherer societies. The study explores typological and chronological v…
Kinship Terminologies of the Circum-Baltic Area
Contact and areal studies of kinship terminologies have by now received too little attention in social anthropology and linguistics. To fill in one of numerous research gaps, we investigated kinship terminologies of the Circum-Baltic ( CB ) area. We discovered many heterogeneous overlapping micro- and macro-convergences belonging to different temporal strata and contact situations. This was especially the case with loanwords, whereas certain calq…
Borrowability of kinship terms in Uralic languages
Kinship terms are assumed to be universal and central to social life, and consequently they are not particularly prone to borrowing. Borrowing of kinship terms does happen, however, and this provides us a lens with which to evaluate the nature and intensity of contact situations. In this study, we provide a general overview of the borrowability of kinship terms into the Uralic languages. We collected kinship terms from twenty Uralic languages and…
Kin Term Borrowings in the World’s Languages
The universality of kinship terms means they are regarded, like much basic vocabulary, as resistant to borrowing. Kin term borrowings are documented at varying frequencies, but their role in the dynamics of change in this core social domain is understudied. We investigated the dimensions and the sociolinguistic contexts of kinship borrowings with 50 kinship categories from a global sample of 32 languages, a subset extracted from the World Loanwor…
Applying Population Genetic Approaches within Languages
The adoption of evolutionary approaches to study language change as a type of non-biological evolution has gained increasing interest and introduced a variety of quantitative tools to linguistics. The focus has thus far mainly been on language families, or ‘linguistic macroevolution,’ and taken the shape of linguistic phylogenetics. Here we explore whether evolutionary methods could be applicable for studying intra-lingual variation (‘linguistic …
Behind Family Trees
Although it has long been recognized that the family tree model is too simplistic to account for historical connections between languages, most computational studies of language history have concentrated on tree-building methods. Here, we employ computational network methods to assess the utility of network models in comparison with tree models in studying the subgrouping of Uralic languages. We also compare basic vocabulary data with words that …
Shedding more light on language classification using basic vocabularies and phylogenetic methods
Encouraged by ongoing discussion of the classification of the Uralic languages, we investigate the family quantitatively using Bayesian phylogenetics and basic vocabulary from seventeen languages. To estimate the heterogeneity within this family and the robustness of its subgroupings, we analyse ten divergent sets of basic vocabulary, including basic vocabulary lists from the literature, lists that exclude borrowing-susceptible meanings, lists wi…
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Shedding more light on language classification using basic vocabularies and phylogenetic methods
Encouraged by ongoing discussion of the classification of the Uralic languages, we investigate the family quantitatively using Bayesian phylogenetics and basic vocabulary from seventeen languages. To estimate the heterogeneity within this family and the robustness of its subgroupings, we analyse ten divergent sets of basic vocabulary, including basic vocabulary lists from the literature, lists that exclude borrowing-susceptible meanings, lists wi…
Behind Family Trees
Although it has long been recognized that the family tree model is too simplistic to account for historical connections between languages, most computational studies of language history have concentrated on tree-building methods. Here, we employ computational network methods to assess the utility of network models in comparison with tree models in studying the subgrouping of Uralic languages. We also compare basic vocabulary data with words that …
Applying Population Genetic Approaches within Languages
The adoption of evolutionary approaches to study language change as a type of non-biological evolution has gained increasing interest and introduced a variety of quantitative tools to linguistics. The focus has thus far mainly been on language families, or ‘linguistic macroevolution,’ and taken the shape of linguistic phylogenetics. Here we explore whether evolutionary methods could be applicable for studying intra-lingual variation (‘linguistic …
Borrowability of kinship terms in Uralic languages
Kinship terms are assumed to be universal and central to social life, and consequently they are not particularly prone to borrowing. Borrowing of kinship terms does happen, however, and this provides us a lens with which to evaluate the nature and intensity of contact situations. In this study, we provide a general overview of the borrowability of kinship terms into the Uralic languages. We collected kinship terms from twenty Uralic languages and…
Kin Term Borrowings in the World’s Languages
The universality of kinship terms means they are regarded, like much basic vocabulary, as resistant to borrowing. Kin term borrowings are documented at varying frequencies, but their role in the dynamics of change in this core social domain is understudied. We investigated the dimensions and the sociolinguistic contexts of kinship borrowings with 50 kinship categories from a global sample of 32 languages, a subset extracted from the World Loanwor…
Kinship Terminologies of the Circum-Baltic Area
Contact and areal studies of kinship terminologies have by now received too little attention in social anthropology and linguistics. To fill in one of numerous research gaps, we investigated kinship terminologies of the Circum-Baltic ( CB ) area. We discovered many heterogeneous overlapping micro- and macro-convergences belonging to different temporal strata and contact situations. This was especially the case with loanwords, whereas certain calq…
The language-contact landscape in the Baltics during the first millennium BC
It is well known that Finnic obtained a large number of loanwords from both Germanic and Baltic, and inferences about the nature of these contacts and the lives of the people speaking these languages have been made based on the existing loanword material. In this paper we go deeper into the topic via a novel combination of three aspects. First, we divided Finnic into the stages Early, Middle, and Late Proto-Finnic and focused specifically on Germ…
An areal-etymological approach to semantic reconstruction of Proto-Uralic kin terms
Languages vary in how they order their kin terms. Kin terms and systems in Uralic languages have changed considerably over time, which has caused challenges for the reconstruction of Proto-Uralic kin terms. There are terms that cannot be reconstructed altogether, terms that can be fairly reliably reconstructed both phonologically and semantically, and terms that, while being easily reconstructed phonologically, exhibit semantic variation that is …
Pottery, language and iron
This paper examines two Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age pottery types in Finland, Luukonsaari and Sirnihta Wares, which were previously poorly defined and dated. New radiocarbon dates and Bayesian modelling place Luukonsaari Ware in c. 2800–2100 cal BP and Sirnihta Ware in c. 2000–1450 cal BP. These periods were crucial for the emergence of coastal farming and inland hunter-gatherer societies. The study explores typological and chronological v…
Extreme events and the spread of Uralic languages
In this paper we present novel aspects concerning the possible connection between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages from western Siberia to North-East Europe. We discuss different reasons for the divergence of Proto-Uralic and the spread of the Uralic languages, and propose a scenario where the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages is connected via three themes: 1) habitat changes, 2) anim…
Linguistics (7 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · History (6 works) · Genealogy (5 works) · Kinship (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works)