Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence

by Joseph C. Salmons (Editor), Brian D. Joseph (Editor)

Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science

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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 show more linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant gen show less

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Joe Salmons

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Joseph Salmons is the Lester W.J. 'Smoky' Seifert Professor of Language Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He also co-founded the Centre for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and edited the journal Diachronica from 2002-20019.

Brian D. Joseph

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