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'''Allan R. Bomhard''' is an American [[Comparative linguistics|comparative linguist]]. 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]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|title=Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/27/science/linguists-debating-deepest-roots-of-language.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=George|last=Johnson|date=June 27, 1995}}</ref> The theory is widely rejected by mainstream linguists.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lyle |title=Historical Linguistics: An Introduction |date=1998 |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=978-0262518499 |page=311|quote="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"}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Was There an ancient superlanguage called Nostratic?|magazine=[[Mosaic (magazine)|Mosaic]]|date=November 9, 2022|author=[[Philologos]]|url=https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2022/11/was-there-an-ancient-superlanguage-called-nostratic/}}</ref> |
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Allan R. Bomhard (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American linguist. |
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Russian linguists [[Georgiy Starostin]], Mikhail Zhivlov, and Alexei Kassian have criticized his work as imprecise and "historically unrealistic".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Starostin |first1=George | author1-link = Georgiy Starostin | last2 = Zhivlov | first2 = Mikhail | last3 = Kassian | first3 = Alexei |title=The "Nostratic" roots of Indo-European: from Illich-Svitych to Dolgopolsky to future horizons |journal=Slovo a Slovesnost | url = https://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.730add89-51a2-446e-9330-c2d163e62180 |date=2016 | volume = 77 | issue = 4 |page=403}}</ref> |
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He was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College, and the City University of New York, and served in the U.S. Army from 1964—1966. He currently resides in Florence, SC. He has studied the controversial hypotheses about the underlying unity among the proposed Nostratic and Eurasiatic language families. He has published nearly 100 articles and nineteen books on comparative-historical inguistics, as well as a number of books/booklets on Buddhism. |
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==Books== |
==Books== |
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*''Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.<ref>Reviews of ''Toward Proto-Nostratic'': |
*''Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.<ref>Reviews of ''Toward Proto-Nostratic'': |
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Allan R. Bomhard is an American comparative linguist. 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.[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
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
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.