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DOLGOPOLSKY, Aharon (intro. Colin Renfrew)
| Title | The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology: With an Introduction by Colin Renfrew. (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages). |
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| Publisher | Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research |
| Date | 1998 |
| Book ID | 38282 |
Description
P/b., xxii+116pp..
Appears almost as new. Unused. Clean and tight.
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 by Colin Renfrew in his introduction. The theory of a Nostratic proto-language is not new, but the extremely detailed presentation of historical linguistic evidence provided here is.
