Nostratic : sifting the evidence
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Nostratic : sifting the evidence
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 142)
John Benjamins, c1998
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Note
Based on papers presented at the 2nd Workshop on Comparative Linguistics which was held at Eastern Michigan University, Fall 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Salmons, Joseph C.)
- 2. I. The Nature and Status of Nostratic
- 3. Some Draft Principles for Classification (by Hamp, Eric P.)
- 4. Nostratic, Eurasiatic, and Indo-European (by Bomhard, Allan R.)
- 5. The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic (by Greenberg, Joseph H.)
- 6. Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis (by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis)
- 7. Indo-European and Nostratic: Some further comments (by Vine, Brent)
- 8. Nostratic: A personal assessment (by Campbell, Lyle)
- 9. II. The Mathematics of Nostratic
- 10. A Probabilistic Evaluation of Indo-Uralic (by Ringe, Don)
- 11. A Probabilistic Evaluation of North Eurasiatic Nostratic (by Oswalt, Robert L.)
- 12. Response to Oswalt and Ringe (by Baxter, William H.)
- 13. III. Relationships within Nostratic
- 14. The Implications of Lislakh for Nostratic (by Hodge, Carleton T.)
- 15. Nostratic and Altaic (by Vovin, Alexander)
- 16. Regular Sound Correspondences and Long-Distance Genetic Comparison (by Comrie, Bernard)
- 17. Indices
- 18. Index of Subjects
- 19. Index of Languages
- 20. Index of Names
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