Download or read book Nostratic written by Joseph C. Salmons and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily written by Yan Kapranov and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Nostratic written by Colin Renfrew and published by McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only the Indo-European and Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian, Uralic, Altaic and Dravidian families. The Nostratic case was put by Aharon Dolgopolsky in his The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguitic Palaeontology, and it is here evaluated critically by linguists specialising in the language families concerned. Contents include: The Nostratic Macrofamily (A. Bomhard); Nostratic Languages: Internal and External Relationship (V. Shevoroshkin); Beyond Nostratic in Time and Space (G. Decsy); Nostratic and Linguistic Palaeontology in Methodological Perspective (L. Campbell); Family Trees and Favourite Daughters (A. McMahon, M. Lohr & R. McMahon); Linguistis Palaeontology: For and Against (I. Hegedus); Afroasiatic and the Nostratic Hypothesis (D. Appleyard); The Dravidian Perspective (K. Zvelebil); Altaic Evidence for Nostratic (A. Vovin); On Semitohamitic Comparison (R. Voight); Toward a Future History of Macrofamily Research (D. Sinor).
Download or read book Indo European Nostratic and Beyond written by Irén Hegedűs and published by Study of Man. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitalij Viktorovich Shevoroshkin: Selected PublicationsRaimo Anttila: Beating a Goddess out of the Bush?Vaclav Blazek: Indo European 'Seven?Claude Pierre Boisson: The Phonotactics of SumerianJ. C. Catford: The Myth of the Primordial ClickMadhav M. Deshpande: Panini and the Distinctive FeaturesJoseph H. Greenberg: Does Altaic Exist?Eric P. Hamp: A Far Out EquationIren Hegedis: On Grammaticalization in NostraticPramila Hemrajani: Three KissesPeter Edwin Hook: Relative Clauses in Eastern ShinaVyacheslav Vs. Ivanov: Luwian Collective and Non Collective Neutral Nouns in ?arBrian D. Joseph: Macrorelationships and Microrelationships and their RelationshipMark Kaiser: Rigor or Vigor?Whither Distant Linguistic Comparison?Leonid Kulikov: Vedic mriyate and other pseudo passives?Notes on an Accent ShiftAlexis Manaster Ramer: The Polygenesis of Western Yiddish?and the Monogenesis of YiddishKarl Heinrich Menges: Etymological Problems with Words for 'Blood? in Nostratic and Beyond.Peter A. Michalove: Altaic Evidence for Clusters in NostraticVladimir Orel: New Albanian Etymologies (Balkan Etymologies 116 145)Ilya Peiros: Macro Families?Can a Mistake Be Detected?Richard A. Rhodes: On Pronominal SystemsMerritt Ruhlen: Proto Amerind *KAPA 'Finger, Hand? and Its Origin in the Old WorldSergei A. Starostin: On the ?Consonant Splits? in JapaneseAlexander Vovin: Some Japanese Etymologies.
Download or read book The Nostratic Hypothesis in 2011 written by Allan R. Bomhard and published by Inst for the Study of Man. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive summary of the Nostratic Hypothesis as of 2011, providing (1) the basis for the reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic as presented by Allan Bomhard, Vladislav M. Illič-Svityč, Aharon B. Dolgopolsky, Joseph H. Greenberg, and others; (2) a comparative vocabulary of Proto-Indo-European stems with proposed Nostratic etymologies and cognates from other branches of Nostratic; (3) a systematic evaluation of the material contained in Aharon Dolgopolsky¿s Nostratic Dictionary.
Download or read book Nostratic Dene Caucasian Austric and Amerind written by Vitaliĭ Viktorovich Shevoroshkin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symposium on the Nostratic Macrofamily written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Languages of the World written by Asya Pereltsvaig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book Toward Proto Nostratic written by Allan R. Bomhard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Vjaceslav 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.
Download or read book The Foundations of Latin written by Philip Baldi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Download or read book The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences Methodological perspectives and applications written by E. F. K. Koerner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work outside these traditional areas. These 22 studies, honouring the founder of "Diachronica" and other publication ventures that have helped revitalize historical enquiry in recent decades, include examinations of Indo-European methodology and the reconstructions carried out by Bloomfield and Sapir; the search for relatives of Indo-European; comparative, structural and sociolinguistic analyses of the history of the Romance languages; regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut; and the synchrony and diachrony of gender affixes in Tsez.
Download or read book Semitic and Indo European written by Saul Levin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary. The facts that are brought out in this volume do not fit comfortably within either the Indo-Europeanists’ or the Semitists’ conception of the prehistoric development of their languages. Nonetheless they are so fundamental that many would take them for evidence of a single original source, ‘Proto-Nostratic’. In this book, however, it is considered unsettled whether proto-IE and proto-Semitic had a common forerunner. But the IE-Semitic combinations testify at least to prehistoric language communities in truly intimate contact.
Download or read book Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 1045 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume of the Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian. It comprises the Egyptian words with initial m-. The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian and the related Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative purposes and an unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field.The reader will find the etymological entries even more detailed than those of the introductory volume, due to the full retrospective presentation of all etymologies proposed since A. Erman's time, and thanks to an extremely detailed discussion of all possible relevant data even on the less known Afro-Asiatic cognates to the Egyptian roots.
Download or read book Indo European Linguistics written by James Clackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the largest number of native speakers in the world today. This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of the Indo-European languages. It clearly sets out the methods for relating the languages to one another, presents an engaging discussion of the current debates and controversies concerning their classification, and offers sample problems and suggestions for how to solve them. Complete with a comprehensive glossary, almost 100 tables in which language data and examples are clearly laid out, suggestions for further reading, discussion points, and a range of exercises, this text will be an essential toolkit for all those studying historical linguistics, language typology and the Indo-European languages for the first time.
Download or read book Indo European and Its Closest Relatives written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic thesis of this book is that the Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America.
Download or read book Black Athena The linguistic evidence written by Martin Bernal and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
