The state of the art of Uralic studies: tradition vs innovation

Angela Marcantonio

Apr 2018 · Convegni Book 41 · Sapienza Università Editrice

About this ebook

This volume contains the Proceedings of the ‘Uralic Studies’ Seminar: The State of the Art of Uralic Studies: Tradition vs Innovation, held in Padua (Italy), November 12-13, 2016. The seminar was organized by the Department of ‘Studi Linguistici e Letterari’ of Padua University and the ‘Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia’ of Sapienza University of Rome. The aim of the seminar, and of this volume, was / is to bring together linguists working on the Uralic languages from different perspectives, with the purpose of increasing the exchange of ideas and fostering mutual influences on each other field and methods of analysis. In addition to presenting the current ‘state of the art of Uralic studies’ – for specialists, general linguists and general public – the volume also addresses some issues related to the so-called ‘Ural-Altaic theory’, nowadays often referred to as the ‘Ural-Altaic linguistic belt, unique typological belt’. The contributors to the volume are renown scholars of Uralic, and also Altaic languages, from various European universities, such as Moscow, Helsinki, Paris, Budapest etc.

About the author

Angela Marcantonio is associate professor of Linguistics, Finno-Ugric & Hungarian Studies, at Sapienza University of Rome. Her main fields of research are historical, descriptive and typological linguistics, applied to the Indo-European languages, the Finno-Ugric (/Uralic) languages, and the (assumed) linguistic connections between the respective proto-languages. In particular, she has conducted research on Finnish, Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages, and the linguistic correlations between Hungarian and Turkic, now summarized in the volume: The nature of the Hungarian vs Turkic linguistic correlations: is Hungarian really a ‘proto-typical’ Uralic language? (Rivista di Studi Ungheresi 16 Rome, 2017).