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Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence

By Joseph C. Salmons , Brian D. Joseph

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1998
ISBN
9027236461, 9789027236463
ISSN
0304-0763
Google Books ID
3hrSIDNcT1EC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15547707 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 142
Pages
vi+292\299
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-01-28 20:08:50

Description

The “Nostratic” hypothesis — positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic — has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another’s arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant genetic relationships generally.The volume contains discussion of variants of the Nostratic hypothesis (A. Bomhard; J. Greenberg; A. Manaster-Ramer, K. Baertsch, K. Adams, & P. Michalove), the mathematics of chance in determining the relationships posited for Nostratic (R. Oswalt; D. Ringe), and the evidence from particular branches posited in Nostratic (L. Campbell; C. Hodge; A. Vovin), with responses and additional discussion by E. Hamp, B. Vine, W. Baxter and B. Comrie.

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