The Uralic Language Family
Subtitle: Facts, Myths and Statistics (Publications of the Philological Society)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780631231707
First sentence: It is often claimed (see, for example, Dixon 1997: 28) that the family-tree model of historical linguistics is realistically only applicable to a small number of language families, namely Indo-European, Semitic, Polynesian and Uralic.