The
Global Lexicostatistical Database: Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS |
This page lists the principal contributors to the GLD project who are
either committed to improving the databases and the site on a regular basis, or
have rendered valuable services for the project some time in the past.
George Starostin, Ph.D., is senior researcher at the Centre for Comparative linguistics
(Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) and head of the Chair for
the History and Philology of the Far East of the Institute of Oriental Cultures
(same institution), as well as head of the newly-formed Laboratory of Oriental
and Comparative Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(RANEPA, Moscow). He is chief coordinator for the GLD project, as well as
co-head of the more global project, Evolution
of Human Language (Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico). He is also the current
managing editor for the Moscow-based Journal of
Language Relationship (Russian State University for the Humanities / Institute
of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Principal interests include theory and methodology of historical
linguistics; genetic and areal connections of several linguistic families in
Eurasia (Dravidian; Yeniseian; Sino-Tibetan) and Africa (Khoisan); research on
macrocomparative hypotheses (Nostratic, /Dene/-Sino-Caucasian, and others);
history of Chinese language and Chinese philology in general. More
information, including a list of publications, can be found on G. Starostin's RSUH page; some of the
publications are also available on-line in the "Articles and Books"
section of the "Tower of Babel" site.
Alexei Kassian, Ph.D., is a
lector at the Centre for Comparative linguistics (Russian State University for
the Humanities, Moscow) and a scientific associate of the Institute of
Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Principal interests include: cuneiform
languages of the Ancient Near East (Hittite, Hurrian, Hattic), macrocomparative
hypotheses, areal interference between languages, theory and methodology of
historical linguistics.
Complete list of publications is available
at http://rggu.academia.edu/AlexeiKassian.
Ìikhail Zhivlov, Ph.D., is a lecturer
at the Centre for Comparative linguistics (Russian State University for the
Humanities, Moscow) and a research fellow of the Institute of Linguistics of
the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Principal interests
include: comparative grammar of Uralic languages, genetic and areal connections
of Proto-Indo-European, Indo-European homeland and culture, comparative
phonology of Altaic languages, native languages of North America, theory and
methodology of historical linguistics.
List of publications
is available at http://rggu.academia.edu/MikhailZhivlov.
The GLD also continues to benefit from the occasional input of several
part-time participants. We are particularly grateful to:
— Elena Barreiro (Salishan wordlists);
— Oleg Belyaev (North Caucasian and Iranian wordlists);
— Evgeniya Chekmeneva (some Bantu wordlists);
— Elena Kuzmina (wordlists of Chinese «dialects»);
— Andrei Nikulin (wordlists for South American languages);
— Mikhail Saenko (wordlists for Romance languages and dialects);
— Artem Trofimov (wordlists for Iranian languages).
Technical assistance:
Alexei Golovastikov |
Data scanning and OCR'ing; Russian/English
translation for some of the databases. |
Phil Krylov |
StarLing and Internet script programming. Web
support of the Internet site. |
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