Kalle Korhonen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kalle Korhonen is involved.
Articles
2013 Shedding more light on language classification using basic vocabularies and phylogenetic methods: A case study of Uralic Diachronica 30:3, pp. 323–352 | Article
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… read more
2011 The role of onomastics for diachronic sociolinguistics: A case study on language shift in late medieval Sicily Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 147–174 | Article
The article focuses on the roles of Greek, Latin/Romance and Arabic in the onomastics of Northeastern Sicily between the 11th and 13th centuries. The first part deals with landless peasants from four villages at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries. I argue that the role played by Arabic in the… read more