Nostratic : Sifting the Evidence PDF
Edited by Salmons Joseph C. Salmons, Joseph Brian D. Joseph
Part of the Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series
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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- Format:PDF
- Pages:298 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:15/09/1998
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- ISBN:9789027275714
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:298 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:15/09/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027275714
