Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages) - Softcover

Renfrew,A.Colin; Nettle,Daniel

 
9781902937007: Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1902937007 ISBN 13: 9781902937007
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1999

Synopsis

This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only the Indo-European and Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian, Uralic,Altaic and Dravidian families. The Nostratic case was put by Aharon Dolgopolsky in his The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguitic Palaeontology , and it is here evaluated critically by linguists specialising in the language families concerned. Contents include: The Nostratic Macrofamily (A. Bomhard); Nostratic Languages: Internal and External Relationship (V. Shevoroshkin); Beyond Nostratic in Time and Space (G. Decsy); Nostratic and Linguistic Palaeontology in Methodological Perspective (L. Campbell); Family Trees and Favourite Daughters (A. McMahon, M. Lohr & R. McMahon); Linguistis Palaeontology: For and Against (I. Hegedus); Afroasiatic and the Nostratic Hypothesis (D. Appleyard); The Dravidian Perspective (K. Zvelebil); Altaic Evidence for Nostratic (A. Vovin); On Semitohamitic Comparison (R. Voight); Toward a Future History of Macrofamily Research (D. Sinor).

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Publisher
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1902937007
ISBN 13 
9781902937007
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
164
Editor
Nettle Daniel, Renfrew Colin