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Articles and Books: The
Tower of Babel Electronic Library
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General and Methodological Works
Sergei A. Starostin. Comparative-Historical
Linguistics and Lexicostatistics. // Originally in: Time Depth
in Historical Linguistics, v. 1. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research, 2000, pp. 223-265. ENGLISH
Ilia Peiros. Macro Families: Can
A Mistake Be Detected?. // Originally in: Indo-European, Nostratic,
and Beyond: Festschrift for Vitalij V. Shevoroshkin. Ed. by Iren Hegedus,
Peter A. Michalove and Alexis Manaster Ramer. JIES Monograph No. 22. Institute
for the Study of Man, Washington DC, 1997, pp. 265-292. ENGLISH
Ilia Peiros. Family Evolution,
Language History and Genetic Classification. // Originally in:
Historical Linguistics & Lexicostatistics. Ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin
& Paul J. Sidwell. Melbourne, 1999, pp. 257-305. ENGLISH
Sergei A. Starostin. Proving
Language Relationship. // Originally in: Typology and Theory
of Language (a Festschrift for A. Ye. Kibrik on his 60th Birthday).
Moscow: Languages of Russian Culture, 1999, pp. 57-69. Reprinted in: S.
A. Starostin. Trudy po yazykoznaniyu. Moscow: Languages of Slavic
Cultures, 2007, pp. 779-793. RUSSIAN
Sergei A. Starostin. Methodology
of Long-Range Comparison. // Originally in: Historical Linguistics
& Lexicostatistics. Ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin & Paul J. Sidwell.
Melbourne, 1999, pp. 61-66. ENGLISH
Merritt Ruhlen. Global Typological
Database: A Description. // Manuscript, 2004. ENGLISH
Anna V. Dybo, George S. Starostin. In
Defense of the Comparative Method, or the End of the Vovin Controversy.
// Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 3. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2008, pp. 109-258. ENGLISH
Indo-European Family
Vladimir A. Dybo. Balto-Slavic Accentology
And Winter's Law . // Originally in: Studia Linguarum,
v. 3. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2002, pp. 295-515. ENGLISH
Vladimir A. Dybo. Baltic Comparative-Historical
and Lithuanian Historical Accentology. // Originally in: Aspects
of Comparative Linguistics, v. 1. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2005, pp.
177-213. RUSSIAN
Vladimir A. Dybo. Reflexation
of Indo-European Long Syllabic Resonants (Nasal and Lateral) in Celto-Italic
Languages (in Defense of H. Pedersen's Conception). // Originally
in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 2. Moscow: RSUH Publishers,
2007, pp. 11-27. RUSSIAN
Vladimir A. Dybo. German Shortening
of the Indo-European Lengths, German «Verschaerfung» (Holtzmann’s Law)
and Balto-Slavic Accentology. // Originally in: Aspects of Comparative
Linguistics, v. 3. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2008, pp. 537-608. RUSSIAN
Altaic Family
Sergei A. Starostin. The Altaic
Problem and the Origins of the Japanese Language [MONOGRAPH].
// Originally: Moscow: Nauka Publishers, 1991. RUSSIAN
Anna V. Dybo. Dental Explosives
in Proto-Turkic. // Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics,
v. 1. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2005, pp. 49-82. RUSSIAN
Oleg A. Mudrak. Notes On The Language
And Culture Of The Danubian Bulgars. // Originally in: Aspects
of Comparative Linguistics, v. 1. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2005, pp.
83-106. RUSSIAN
Anna V. Dybo. Reconstruction of Proto-Oghuz
Conjugation. // Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics,
v. 2. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2007, pp. 259-280. RUSSIAN
Oleg A. Mudrak. The development
of l1-clusters in Proto-Altaic. // Originally in: Aspects
of Comparative Linguistics, v. 2. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2007, pp.
337-352. RUSSIAN
Eskimo Family
Oleg A. Mudrak. Kamchukchee and Eskimo
Glottochronology and Some Altaic Etymologies Found in the Swadesh List.
// Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 3. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2008, pp. 297-336. ENGLISH
Dravidian Family
George S. Starostin. Alveolar Consonants
in Proto-Dravidian: One or More? // Originally in: Proceedings
of the International Conference on South Asian Languages (July 1-4, 1997).
Moscow: Institute of Asian and African Studies, 1998, pp. 183-194. ENGLISH
George S. Starostin. Once More
on Personal Pronouns in Dravidian Languages. // Originally in:
Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 2. Moscow: RSUH Publishers,
2007, pp. 101-150. RUSSIAN
Afro-Asiatic Macrofamily
Alexander Yu. Militarev. Once More About
Glottochronology And The Comparative Method: The Omotic-Afrasian case.
// Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 1. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2005, pp. 339-408. ENGLISH
Alexander Yu. Militarev. Root
Extension And Root Formation In Semitic And Afrasian. // Originally
in: Proceedings of the Barcelona Symposium on comparative Semitic,
19-20/11/2004. Aula Orientalis 23/1-2, 2005, pp. 83-129. ENGLISH
Sino-Caucasian Macrofamily
Sergei A. Starostin. Word-final Resonants
in Sino-Caucasian. // Originally in: Journal of Chinese Linguistics,
vol. 24.2, 1996, pp. 281-311. Reprinted in: S. A. Starostin. Trudy po
yazykoznaniyu. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, 2007, pp. 633-659.
Sergei A. Starostin. Sino-Caucasian [comparative
phonology]. // Unpublished (written in 2004-05). ENGLISH
Sergei A. Starostin. Sino-Caucasian
[comparative glossary]. // Unpublished (written in 2004-05). ENGLISH
John D. Bengtson. Materials for
a Comparative Grammar of the Dene-Caucasian (Sino-Caucasian) Languages.
// Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 3. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2008, pp. 45-118. ENGLISH
North Caucasian Family
Sergei L. Nikolayev. North Caucasian
Borrowings in Hittite and Old Greek. // Originally in: Ancient
Anatolia. Moscow: Nauka, 1985, pp. 60-73. RUSSIAN
Sergei A. Starostin. Indo-European/North
Caucasian Isoglosses. // Originally in: Ancient Orient. Ethnocultural
Relations. Moscow: Nauka, 1988, pp. 112-163. RUSSIAN
Igor M. Diakonoff, Sergei A. Starostin. Hurro-Urartian
and East Caucasian Languages. // Originally in: Ancient Orient.
Ethnocultural Relations. Moscow: Nauka, 1988, pp. 164-207. RUSSIAN
Sergei A. Starostin. A North
Caucasian Etymological Dictionary: Preface [MONOGRAPH].
// Originally: Moscow, Asterisk Publishers, 1994, pp.7-199. Reprinted:
Ann Arbor, Caravan Books, 2007, pp. 7-199. ENGLISH
Sergei A. Starostin. Genetic Relationship
and Classification of Caucasian Languages from the Basic Lexicon Point
of View. // Originally in: Alarodii (Ethno-Genetic Research).
Makhachkala: Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography, 1995,
pp. 42-65. Reprinted in: S. A. Starostin. Trudy po yazykoznaniyu.
Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, 2007, pp. 529-545. RUSSIAN
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sergei A. Starostin. Reconstruction
of the Phonological System of Old Chinese (chapters 1 & 2)
[MONOGRAPH]. // Ìoscow: Nauka, 1989. RUSSIAN
Sergei A. Starostin. Old Chinese
Basic Vocabulary: A Historical Perspective. // Originally in: Journal
of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series 8 (The Ancestry of Chinese Language).
Ed. by William S.-Y. Wang. Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis,
1995, pp. 225-251. Reprinted in: S. A. Starostin. Trudy po yazykoznaniyu.
Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, 2007, pp. 547-570. ENGLISH
Sergei A. Starostin. The Historical
Position of Bai. // Originally in: The Moscow Linguistic Journal,
v. 1. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 1995, pp. 174-190. Reprinted in: S. A. Starostin.
Trudy po yazykoznaniyu. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, 2007,
pp. 580-590. ENGLISH
Sergei A. Starostin. Genesis of
the Long Vowels in Sino-Tibetan. // Originally in: Problems
of the Study of Long-Distance Language Relationships on the Eve of the
3rd Millennium. Conference Abstracts. Ì., èçä. ÐÃÃÓ, 2000, pp. 224-231.
ENGLISH
Yeniseian Family
Sergei A. Starostin. The
Reconstruction of Proto-Yeniseian and the External Relations of Yeniseian
Languages. // Originally in: The Ket Volume (Studia Ketica),
v. 3. Anthropology, ethnography, mythology, linguistics. Leningrad:
Nauka Publishers, 1982, pp. 144-237. Reprinted in: S. A. Starostin. Trudy
po yazykoznaniyu. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, 2007, pp. 147-246.
RUSSIAN
Kirill Yu. Reshetnikov, George S. Starostin. The
Structure of the Ket Verbal Form. // Originally in: The Ket
Volume (Studia Ketica), v. 4. Moscow: Languages of Russian Culture,
1995, pp. 7-121. RUSSIAN
Kirill Yu. Reshetnikov, George S. Starostin. Morphology
of the Kott Verb and Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Verbal System.
// Originally in: The Ket Volume (Studia Ketica), v. 4. Moscow:
Languages of Russian Culture, 1995, pp. 122-175. RUSSIAN
Austronesian Family
Murray Gell-Mann, Ilia Peiros, Sergei A. Starostin. Lexicostatistics
Compared with Shared Innovations: the Polynesian Case. // Originally
in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 3. Moscow: RSUH Publishers,
2008, pp. 13-44. ENGLISH
Khoisan Macrofamily
George S. Starostin. A Lexicostatistical
Approach Towards Reconstructing Proto-Khoisan. // Originally in:
Mother Tongue, v. VIII. 2003, pp. 81-126. ENGLISH
George S. Starostin. Some Aspects
of the Historical Development of Clicks in Khoisan Languages. //
Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 1. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2005, pp. 281-299. RUSSIAN
George S. Starostin. Labial Clicks
in Khoisan Languages. // Originally in: Aspects of Comparative
Linguistics, v. 2. Moscow: RSUH Publishers, 2007, pp. 353-374. RUSSIAN
George S. Starostin. From Modern
Khoisan Languages to Proto-Khoisan: The Value of Intermediate Reconstructions.
// Originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 3. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2008, pp. 337-470. ENGLISH
Amerind Macrofamily
Joseph H. Greenberg, Merritt M. Ruhlen. An
Amerind Etymological Dictionary. // Manuscript, 2007.
Various Isolates
George S. Starostin. On the Genetic Affiliation
of the Elamite Language. // Originally in: Mother Tongue,
v. VII. 2002, pp. 147-170. ENGLISH
Sergei A. Iatsemirsky. Etruscan
numerals: problems and results of research. // Russian version
originally in: Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 2. Moscow:
RSUH Publishers, 2007, pp. 187-196. ENGLISH
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