Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2 Vols)

Comparative Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16853-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 1820 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1633 g

Reihe: Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series

This book is a comprehensive comparison of Proto-Indo-European, in all its stages of development and in all its aspects, with various other language families of Northern Eurasia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. It is an attempt to show that Proto-Indo-European is not genetically isolated but, rather, belongs to a larger linguistic grouping, namely, the Nostratic macrofamily. For the first time, all aspects of the putative proto-language are discussed in detail: phonology, morphology, vocabulary, syntax, and homelands. Copious references are given throughout to the relevant literature and the book ends with an English-Nostratic index. Also for the first time, a sizable amount of material has been included from Eskimo-Aleut and Chukchi-Kamchatkan. This book is, therefore, the most important contribution to Nostratic linguistics to appear to date.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bomhard, Allan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Allan R. Bomhard was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College, and City University of New York. He has published five books and over fifty articles on Comparative-Historical Linguistics, a.o. Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic (Benjamins, 1984) and The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship (Co-author John Kerns, Mouton, 1994). His main areas of interest are Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and distant linguistic comparison.