Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily

A Comparative Study of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic Proto-Languages
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1730-8
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 005, 177 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

Reihe: Fields of Linguistics – Aktuelle Fragestellungen und Herausforderungen

This monograph presents a groundbreaking exploration into the Nostratic macrofamily, a concept that proposes a common ancestral language for several of the world’s foremost language families. The study delves deep into the roots of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic languages, offering a unique perspective on their interconnections and evolutionary paths. The authors examine five pivotal Nostratic etymons from the Swadesh index to illustrate the shared cognitive frameworks of these diverse linguistic groups. This research challenges conventional perspectives on language evolution and introduces new methodologies in cognitive macro-comparative studies. Key to the work is the hypothesis of divergent-convergent and convergent-divergent evolutionary patterns stemming from a common Nostratic origin. Beyond linguistics, this study offers insights into human cognitive development, language formation, and change mechanisms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapranov, Yan

Iwanowska, Bozena

Cieslik, Boleslaw

Iwanowska, Boz?ena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Kapranov, Yan
Dr habil. Yan Kapranov is a Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland), and a Professor at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (Ukraine). He leads the UEHS Academic and Research Center for Multilingualism in Corpus Translation and Interpreting Studies. His research interests are related to cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics.

Iwanowska, Bozena
Dr Bozena Iwanowska is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, as the Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research, she integrates her linguistic expertise with historical research, focusing mainly on the impact of tragic historical events on language evolution and usage.

Cieslik, Boleslaw
Dr Boleslaw Cieslik is an Assistant Professor at the Department of German Linguistics, Institute of Neophilology, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. His specialization in Comparative Linguistics, focusing on German languages, places him at the forefront of research in understanding the complexities and historical developments of the Germanic language family.

Cieslik, Boleslaw
Dr Boleslaw Cieslik is an Assistant Professor at the Department of German Linguistics, Institute of Neophilology, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. His specialization in Comparative Linguistics, focusing on German languages, places him at the forefront of research in understanding the complexities and historical developments of the Germanic language family.

Iwanowska, Bozena
Dr Bozena Iwanowska is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, as the Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research, she integrates her linguistic expertise with historical research, focusing mainly on the impact of tragic historical events on language evolution and usage.