Proto-Nostratic

In the meanwhile as I get reorganized and finally take advantage of Blogger's capability to issue my blog rants at prearranged intervals, you can venture over to Phoenix's blog where he's noticed something askew about some details of Allan Bomhard's published views on Proto-Nostratic: Nostraticists and their crazy theories.

Phoenix discusses Nostratic 2008

In the meanwhile as I get reorganized and finally take advantage of Blogger's capability to issue my blog rants at prearranged intervals, you can venture over to Phoenix's blog where he's noticed something askew about some details of Allan Bomhard's published views on Proto-Nostratic: Nostraticists and their crazy theories.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

Markedness was violated everywhere according to his lavish brand of Proto-Nostratic and even some of the most common words in a normal human language such as pronouns and particles were replete with these articulatorily taxing ejectives.

The early Illych-Svitych on Indo-European and early Semitic contacts 2008

If one pushes the date of Proto-Nostratic far enough back, inevitably Afro-Asiatic would be "part of the family" anyway.

Phoenix discusses Nostratic 2008

Markedness was violated everywhere according to his lavish brand of Proto-Nostratic and even some of the most common words in a normal human language such as pronouns and particles were replete with these articulatorily taxing ejectives.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

I was always dismayed by Allan Bomhard's ignorance of possible IE-Semitic loans in his rush to reconstruct Proto-Nostratic in Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis 1996, but now I'm even more dismayed as I find other hints at this apparently extensive intercultural communication.

Still on the hunt for Semitic-PIE connections 2008

I am quite sure that most of these nine bar-s were differentiated in the good old days of Proto-Nostratic, some 15,000 years ago.

The blue haze of distance superversive 2006

This is no doubt why he focusses on these two language groups in particular - to attempt to approach the mysteries of Proto-Nostratic by some sort of linguistic triangulation.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

First the bad news about this book: If you're looking to Bomhard to give you a thorough reconstruction of the Proto-Nostratic language, keep looking.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

Regarding Bomhard's general reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, I believe that many of these "Nostratic" roots are not genuine.

"Mid Indo-European", Semitic and Neolithic numerals 2007