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Linguistica Uralica
ISSN 1736-7506 (Electronic)
ISSN 0868-4731 (Print)
What is the Linguistic Evidence to Support the Uralic Theory or Theories?; pp. 40–45
PDF | 10.3176/lu.2004.1.06

Author
Angela Marcantonio
Abstract

One must always make a clear distinction between things that one has demonstrated with evidence, and things that one has not. Sometimes the latter might be a valuable pointer to further research, however it must be clearly labelled as speculation, because to do otherwise would be misleading to future researchers. If one is to establish a language family within the framework of the conventional Comparative Method, one must begin with a reconstruction of relevant areas of morphology, and the reconstruction of at least the top node, the proto-language. Neither of these elements has to this day been properly implemented in Uralic studies.

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