Allan R. Bomhard
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Allan R. Bomhard is an American independent scholar publishing in the field of comparative linguistics. He is part of a small group of proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis, according to which the Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, and Afroasiatic languages would all belong to a larger macrofamily.[1] The theory is widely rejected by mainstream linguists as a fringe theory.[1][2] Among Nostratists, he has been described as "a maximalist who casts his nets as widely as possible" among far-flung languages not generally believed to be related.[3]
Russian linguists Georgiy Starostin, Mikhail Zhivlov, and Alexei Kassian have criticized his work as imprecise and "historically unrealistic".[4]
Books
- Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.[5]
- Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis. Charleston: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996.[6]
- Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic: Comparative Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2 vols, 2008.
- The Nostratic Hypothesis in 2011: Trends and Issues. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2011.[7]
- An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language. Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship, 2012.
- A Sketch of Proto-Indo-Anatolian Phonology. Florence, SC USA, 2024.
with John C. Kerns:
- The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship. Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.[8]
with Arnaud Fournet:
- The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian. La Garenne Colombes / Charleston, 2010.[9]
See also
- Hermann Möller, Danish linguist
References
- ^ a b Johnson, George (June 27, 1995). "Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language". The New York Times.
- ^ Campbell, Lyle (1998). Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. The MIT Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-0262518499.
Postulated remote relationships such as Amerind, Nostratic and Proto-World have been featured in newspapers, magazines and television documentaries, and yet these same proposals have been rejected by most mainstream historical linguistics
- ^ Philologos (November 9, 2022). "Was There an ancient superlanguage called Nostratic?". Mosaic.
- ^ Starostin, George; Zhivlov, Mikhail; Kassian, Alexei (2016). "The "Nostratic" roots of Indo-European: from Illich-Svitych to Dolgopolsky to future horizons". Slovo a Slovesnost. 77 (4): 403.
- ^ Reviews of Toward Proto-Nostratic:
- Kaye, Alan S. (1985). "Review". Language. 61 (4): 887–891. doi:10.2307/414496. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 414496.
- Levin, Saul (January 1985). "Review". Diachronica. 2 (1): 97–104. doi:10.1075/dia.2.1.09lev.
- Helimski, Eugene (1987). "A "New Approach" to Nostratic Comparison". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 107 (1): 97–100. doi:10.2307/602956. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 602956.
- Palmaitis, Mykolas L. (December 1986). "Besprechungsaufsätze: New Contributions to "Proto-Nostratic"". Indogermanische Forschungen: 305–317. doi:10.1515/9783110243338.305.
- ^ Reviews of Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis:
- McCall, Daniel F. (1997). "Rev. of Bomhard, Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 30 (2): 473–76. doi:10.2307/221291. JSTOR 221291.
- Sidwell, Paul J. (January 1998). "Review". Diachronica. 15 (2): 341–348. doi:10.1075/dia.15.2.09sid.
- Gluhak, Alemko (1997). "Allan R. Bomhard, Indo-European and the Nostratic hypothesis". Filologija (in Croatian). 29: 200–205.
- Matthews, S. (1998). "Review of Indo-European and the Nostratic hypothesis". Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York. 49 (1): 113.
- ^ Greppin, John A.C. (2017). "Review of The Nostratic Hypothesis in 2011". Prace Językoznawcze. XIX (3): 235–250. ISSN 1509-5304.
- ^ Reviews of The Nostratic Macrofamily:
- Orel, Vladimir (1996). "Rev. of Bomhard and Kerns, The Nostratic Macrofamily". Anthropological Linguistics. 38 (1): 155–58. JSTOR 30028451.
- Campbell, Lyle (1996). "Review of The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship". Language. 72 (3): 656–657. doi:10.2307/416301. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 416301.
- Picard, Marc (March 1996). "Review". Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 41 (1): 62–65. doi:10.1017/S0008413100020284. ISSN 0008-4131. S2CID 148709978.
- ^ Kassian, Alexei (2010). "Review of The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian" (PDF). Journal of Language Relationship. 4: 199–211.
External links
- Allan Bomhard at ResearchGate
- Allan R. Bomhard: Nostratic linguistics is in full agreement with standard, recognized methodologies, 2019 interview
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