Allan R. Bomhard
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Allan R. Bomhard (born July 10 1943)[1] is an American independent scholar writing books and predominantly self-published papers in the field of comparative linguistics and Buddhism. He is part of a small group of proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis, according to which the Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Afroasiatic languages, and the Altaic languages would all belong to a larger macrofamily. As a prominent proponent of Nostratic, Bomhards work has received attention from mainstream linguists and occasionally been discussed in linguistic sources. The majority of his work has been self published or printed thorough vanity presses.[2] Mainstream linguists have dismissed his theories.[2][3][4]
Criticism
His theory about Nostratic languages is widely rejected by mainstream linguists as a fringe theory.[2][3] 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.[4]
Russian linguists Georgiy Starostin, Mikhail Zhivlov, and Alexei Kassian have criticized his work as imprecise and "historically unrealistic".[5]
Books
- Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.[6]
- Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis. Charleston: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
with Arnaud Fournet:
- The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian. La Garenne Colombes / Charleston, 2010.[10]
See also
- Hermann Möller, Danish linguist
References
- ^ Bomhard, Allan R. (1943-....). Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- ^ a b c Johnson, George (June 27, 1995). "Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language". The New York Times.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b 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 Academia.edu
- Allan R. Bomhard: Nostratic linguistics is in full agreement with standard, recognized methodologies, 2019 interview
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