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Ungureanu's later rejection of an Altaic lexical family is a substantive reversal from the 2010 article's favorable assessment of Indo-European–Uralic–Altaic kinship and illustrates his false-positive method changing his own conclusion.

Evidence: 2010 says IE–Uralic–Altaic kinship is better proved than Afroasiatic unity; later abstract says Turkic/Mongolic/Tungusic core-vocabulary matches fall inside the false-positive range.

Inference: The methodological trajectory is one of increasing skepticism rather than a fixed macrofamily doctrine.

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The later Altaic paper is a substantive reversal from Ungureanu's 2010 favorable assessment of Indo-European–Uralic–Altaic kinship, showing his false-positive method putting pressure on his earlier substantive conclusion.

Evidence: 2010 calls IE–Uralic–Altaic lexical kinship strongly supported; later paper says EDAL's lexical evidence does not prove Altaic.

Inference: The methodological trajectory is more skeptical than the original macrofamily claim.

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Ungureanu's geographic model changes materially between 2016 and 2024: the 2016 book treats Romanian as separated from the Romance trunk in the 4th century and aims to identify the Dacian colonists' precise northern-Italian source, whereas the 2024 book explicitly places Romanian formation south of the Danube along Via Egnatia while retaining a northern-Italian source Latin.

Evidence: 2016: separation in c. IV + precise Dacia-colonist source; 2024: south-Danube/Via Egnatia formation from 4th-c northern-Italian-source Latin.

Inference: Source dialect, date of regional dialectalization and place of final Romanian formation must be tracked as distinct variables across his work.

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Ungureanu's 2024 Reichenau chronology creates a real tension with the 2016 formulation that Romanian was already separated from the Romance trunk in the 4th century; the tension can be reduced only by distinguishing early regional dialectalization from later final separation.

Evidence: 2016 says separated in 4th c; Reichenau analysis attributes many later Romance lexical selections to Romanian and proposes a later effective split.

Inference: A two-stage model—early dialectal source but continued participation in wider Proto-Romance change—fits the corpus better than a single separation date.

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Ungureanu's later social writing shifts explanatory weight from stable national mentality toward dynamic mechanisms such as infrastructure, urbanization, migration, institutional incentives, rankings, proxies and feedback loops.

Evidence: 2021: railways/newspapers/TV transform social-symbolic worlds; 2023: urbanization/emigration/reform audit; 2026: proxies/feedback/model audit.

Inference: The corpus shows a shift in explanatory style from national latent traits toward auditable structural mechanisms.

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