Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum.
The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical data is suitable for detecting the coarse-grained and fine-grained substructure within the Finnic group. We evaluated this by clustering old lexical variation from a dialectal dataset covering the whole...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/308141 2024-01-07T09:44:33+01:00 Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. Honkola, Terhi Santaharju, Jenni Syrjänen, Kaj Pajusalu, Karl Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme 2019-12-12T10:27:02Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308141 eng eng Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus 10.3176/lu.2019.3.01 Honkola , T , Santaharju , J , Syrjänen , K & Pajusalu , K 2019 , ' Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. ' , Linguistica Uralica , vol. 55 , no. 3 , pp. 161-184 . https://doi.org/10.3176/lu.2019.3.01 ORCID: /0000-0002-7925-2715/work/66034066 67e3fda3-b543-4997-b255-d13ec1ed6942 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308141 openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 6121 Languages Article publishedVersion 2019 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:03:55Z The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical data is suitable for detecting the coarse-grained and fine-grained substructure within the Finnic group. We evaluated this by clustering old lexical variation from a dialectal dataset covering the whole Finnic speaker area (Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum; ALFE) using quantitative methods adopted from population genetics, and by comparing our results to groups suggested by earlier linguistic literature. We found the main lexical division between north-eastern and south-western Finnic. According to our lexical analysis, the Finnic languages are Finnish, North Estonian, South Estonian, Livonian, Karelian, Veps, and Votic-Ingrian. These groups matched well with the earlier suggested divisions, and we concluded that lexical data could be utilised more often in defining linguistic sub-structures, especially in linguistic situations that involve dialect continua. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper karelian votic HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Linguistica Uralica 55 3 161 |
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The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical data is suitable for detecting the coarse-grained and fine-grained substructure within the Finnic group. We evaluated this by clustering old lexical variation from a dialectal dataset covering the whole Finnic speaker area (Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum; ALFE) using quantitative methods adopted from population genetics, and by comparing our results to groups suggested by earlier linguistic literature. We found the main lexical division between north-eastern and south-western Finnic. According to our lexical analysis, the Finnic languages are Finnish, North Estonian, South Estonian, Livonian, Karelian, Veps, and Votic-Ingrian. These groups matched well with the earlier suggested divisions, and we concluded that lexical data could be utilised more often in defining linguistic sub-structures, especially in linguistic situations that involve dialect continua. Peer reviewed |
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Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. |
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Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. |
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Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. |
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Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. |
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Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. |
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clustering lexical variation of finnic languages based on atlas linguarum fennicarum. |
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10.3176/lu.2019.3.01 Honkola , T , Santaharju , J , Syrjänen , K & Pajusalu , K 2019 , ' Clustering lexical variation of Finnic languages based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum. ' , Linguistica Uralica , vol. 55 , no. 3 , pp. 161-184 . https://doi.org/10.3176/lu.2019.3.01 ORCID: /0000-0002-7925-2715/work/66034066 67e3fda3-b543-4997-b255-d13ec1ed6942 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308141 |
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