Mervi De Heer

Dados Biográficos

ID6855484
NOMEMervi De Heer
PRENOMESMervi
SOBRENOMEDe Heer
ASSINATURADE HEER M
AFILIAÇÕESUppsala University
ORCID0000-0003-2934-8951
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Stability of meanings in basic vocabulary lists of Uralic languages

    Open AccessMervi De Heer, Luke MauritsARTICLEEesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse…2025

    Meanings in basic vocabulary lists are expected to be stable. In the literature, various basic vocabulary lists have been proposed that are founded on various criteria, with stability being a key criterion. However, the stability of basic meanings and to what degree popular lists fit these is rarely assessed for whole language families. In this paper, we define stability as resistance to borrowing, and we examine quantitatively how prone to borro…

  • Loanwords in Basic Vocabulary as an Indicator of Borrowing Profiles

    Open AccessMervi De Heer, Rogier Blokland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language Contact2024Referências: 14

    Loanwords carry information on linguistic interactions, and can also reveal (pre-)historical population contacts. The contact history of a particular language family is an essential component of historical linguistics, but it is also illuminating for integrative studies of the human past. However, data availability and the time-consuming nature of etymology mean that comprehensive research on loanword layers exists for relatively few languages, f…