Second Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition. — Charleston, SC, 2015. — 2258 pp. (Four volumes, combined into a single PDF). This book attempts to demonstrate that Proto-Indo-European is not genetically isolated but, rather, is a branch of the Nostratic macrofamily of languages.
Charleston, SC: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996. — 266 pp. — (Studia Nostratica, 1). — ISBN: 0-9652294-0-8. An early work (1996) by Allan R. Bomhard comparing the Indo-European parent language with various other languages/language families of Northern Eurasia and the ancient Near East. Introduction, History of Research, and Methodology. A Survey of the Nostratic Languages. A...
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 1191 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 768 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 594 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
4th edition. — Florence, SC, 2021. — 857 p. Revised 2 January 2023. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 870 p. This edition contains many corrections and updates. New material and references have been added to take into consideration the latest scholarship, and new sections have been added to several chapters as well. Chapter 7, A Sketch of Proto-Afrasian Phonology, has been reformatted and greatly expanded. I have added one new etymology, and...
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 634 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
4th edition. — Florence, SC, 2021. — 617 p. Revised 2 January 2023. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
4th edition. — Florence, SC, 2021. — 619 p. Revised 2 January 2023. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 635 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 979 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
4th edition. — Florence, SC, 2021. — 961 p. Revised 2 January 2023. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 297 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
Florence, SC, 2021. — 192 p. In 2008, I prepared an 82-page critical peer review of Aharon Dolgopolsky’s massive Nostratic Dictionary at the request of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. However, until recently, I had not prepared a similar review of Vladislav Markovič Illič-Svityč’s (Владислав Маркович...
Signum Desktop Publishing, 1996. — 280 p. — (Studia Nostratica 1). Distant (or long-range) linguistic comparison seeks to investigate the possibility that certain languages or language families, not previously thought to be genetically related, at least not “closely” related, might indeed be part of still larger groupings, which may be called “macrofamilies”. This book will...
Revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 320 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 337 p. This Nostratic Etymological Index contains all of the Proto-Nostratic roots and their derived verbal and nominal forms cited in the second and third volumes (Part Three: Comparative Vocabulary) of the fifth revised, corrected, and expanded edition of my book A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics (published...
Leiden. Boston: Brill, 2008. — XV, 875 p. — (Leiden Indo-European etymological dictionary series edited by Alexander Lubotsky, 6). — ISBN 978-90-04-17067-4. Part One: Introduction, Comparative Phonology, Homelands, etc. : Preface. Introduction, History of Research, and Methodology: Introduction. History of Research. Methodology. The Comparative Method. Critique of Moscovite...
Institute for the Study of Man, 2011. — 349 p. — (Journal of Indo-European Studies: Monograph Series 59 ). 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...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1984. — 369 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 27). 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...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. — 948 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 74) Nostratic is a macrofamily, or hypothetical large-scale language family, that includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents. In its more restricted, current form, it includes the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic...
Yoël L. Arbeitman (Editor), Allan R. Bomhard (Editor), Bono Homini Donum : Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. Volume I. — Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science IV. Current issues in linguistic theory, offprint. — Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V, 1981. 351 — 474. Comparison of Indo-European and Afroasiatic. Credit: Allan...
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 759 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1998. — 142 p. — (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages). Do all or most languages in the world descend from a single proto-language? And if so what can we tell from linguistic analysis about the speakers of this ancient tongue? These are the two questions at the heart of this controversial book and the themes clearly outlined...
Lingua Franca Group, 2004. — 244 p. 1903 was the year of the first appearance of the term Nostratic in the oftquoted article by Holger Pedersen. It was not the first time that the distant genetic relations of Old-World language families had been discussed, but the coining of a name along with Pedersen’s forceful arguments for, at least, a solid connection between Indo-European...
The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1999. — 431 p. — (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages). 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...
John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1998. — 292 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 142). — ISBN: 9027236461. 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,...
Иллич-Свитыч В. М. Опыт сравнения ностратических языков (семитохамитский, картвельский, индоевропейский, уральский, дравидийский, алтайский). Введение. Сравнительный словарь (b–K) / Под редакцией и с вступительной статьей В. А. Дыбо. М.: "Наука", 1971. – 412 с.
В книге впервые в науке строго доказывается генетическое родство шести больших языковых семей Старого Света:...
Опыт сравнения ностратических языков (семитохамитский, картвельский, индоевропейский, уральский, дравидийский, алтайский). Введение. Сравнительный словарь (b–K) / Под редакцией и со вступительной статьтей В. А. Дыбо. — М.: Наука, 1971. — 412 с. В книге впервые в науке строго показывается генетическое родство шести больших языковых семей Старого Света: семитохамитской,...
Под ред. В. А. Дыбо. М.: "Наука", 1976. – 156 с. Книга представляет собой II том исследования, в котором впервые в науке строго доказывается генетическое родство шести больших семей Старого Света: семитохамитской, картвельской, индоевропейской, уральской, дравидийской и алтайской. Данный том содержит вторую часть этимологического словаря, составленную автором (l–ʒ), и указатели...
Иллич-Свитыч В. М. Опыт сравнения ностратических языков (семитохамитский, картвельский, индоевропейский, уральский, дравидийский, алтайский). Сравнительный словарь (p–q) (по картотекам автора) / Отв. ред. В. А. Дыбо. М.: "Наука", 1984. – 136 с.
Данный выпуск продолжает издание Сравнительного словаря ностратических языков, в котором впервые в науке строго доказывается...
Конференция. Тезисы докладов. — М.: Институт славяноведения и балканистики АН СССР, 1977. — 86 с. Редакционная коллегия: Вяч. Вс. Иванов (председатель Оргкомитета), Р. В. Булатова, В. А. Дыбо, Е. А. Хелимский. Проведение конференции приурочено к выходу II тома книги В. М. Иллич-Свитыча "Опыт сравнения ностратических языков". Отклики на I том книги В. М. Иллич-Свитыча,...
Харьков: ХНАМГ, 2010. — 254 с. В книге обосновано самостоятельное зарождение производящего хозяйства на юге Украины в эпоху мезолита и расположение здесь центра происхождения ностратических народов. Новый метод выявления отдаленного родства языков позволил поновому понять древнейшую историю человечества. Для лингвистов, археологов и культурологов.
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