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Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic

By Paul J. Hopper , Allan R. Bomhard

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1984
ISBN
9027235198, 9789027235190
ISSN
0304-0763
Google Books ID
j9WN4fHIPlwC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (25745127 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 27
Pages
xii+356\369
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-03-09 14:17:53

Description

This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a comparison of Proto-Indo-European with Proto-Afroasiatic. While this is not the first attempt to demonstrate that Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic are genetically related, it is the first to use the radical revision of the Proto-Indo-European consonantal system proposed by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Paul J. Hopper, and Vjačeslav V. Ivanov. Moreover, unlike previous endeavors, this is the first to make extensive use of data from the non-Semitic branches of Afroasiatic. The assumptions underlying this investigation of the possibility of the common genetic origin of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic differ considerably from the assumptions made in other works on "Nostratic"; the methodological approach followed in this monograph has been one of rigorous adherence to the time-honored principles of comparative reconstruction.

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