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DIACHRONICA
卷 30, 期 3, 页码 323-352出版社
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
DOI: 10.1075/dia.30.3.02syr
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historical linguistics; computational phylogenetics; Uralic languages; basic vocabulary
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 with varying degrees of borrowing-susceptible meanings and a list combining all of the examined items. The results show that the Uralic phylogeny has a fairly robust shape from the perspective of basic vocabulary, and is not dramatically altered by borrowing-susceptible meanings. The results differ to some extent from the `standard paradigm' classification of these languages, such as the lack of firm evidence for Finno-Permian.
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