After the protolanguage
Invisible convergence, false divergence and boundary shift
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20467743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaakko Häkkinen (0000-0002-0860-7670, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 2012 |
| Issue | 61 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0355-1253 • E-ISSN: 0355-1253 |
| Publisher | Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33339/fuf.85674 |
| OpenAlex | W324499387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
I discuss the processes involved in the birth of a language family: what kind of processes can happen or may have happened between the common protolanguage and the present-day languages. I do not consider the subject at a purely theoretical level, but rather through examples drawn from the Uralic studies. I name certain processes which have not (to my knowledge) previously been explicitly analyzed. I also argue that the taxonomic structure of a language family cannot be reliably reconstructed on the basis of the lexical level, and even less so if based on lexical retentions, which has been the common practice in lexicostatistic studies
Epistemology · Genealogy · Linguistics · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |