Author: DOLGOPOLSKY, Aharon (intro. Colin Renfrew)
Title: The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology: With an Introduction by Colin Renfrew. (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages).
Description: Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1998. 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.

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