Allan R. Bomhard (born 1943) is an American
linguist
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.
Born in
Brooklyn
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,
New York, he was educated at
Fairleigh Dickinson University
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,
Hunter College, and the
City University of New York, and served in the
U.S. Army
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from 1964 to 1966. He currently resides in
Florence, South Carolina. He has studied the controversial hypotheses about the underlying unity among the proposed
Nostratic
Nostratic is a controversial hypothetical macrofamily, which includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents. It typically comprises Kartvelian, Indo-European and U ...
and
Eurasiatic
Eurasiatic is a proposed language macrofamily that would include many language families historically spoken in northern, western, and southern Eurasia.
The idea of a Eurasiatic superfamily dates back more than 100 years. Joseph Greenberg's prop ...
language families.
Books
*''Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.
*''Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis.'' Charleston: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996.
*''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.
*''An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language''. Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship, 2012
with John C. Kerns:
*''The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship''. Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
See also
*
Hermann Möller
Hermann Möller (13 January 1850, in Hjerpsted, Denmark – 5 October 1923, in Copenhagen) was a Danish linguist noted for his work in favor of a genetic relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic language families and his version of ...
*
Indo-Semitic languages
The Indo-Semitic hypothesis maintains that a genetic relationship exists between Indo-European and Semitic and that the Indo-European and the Semitic language families descend from a prehistoric language ancestral to them both. The theory has ne ...
*
Nostratic languages
Nostratic is a controversial hypothetical macrofamily, which includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents. It typically comprises Kartvelian, Indo-European and ...
References
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1943 births
Living people
Linguists from the United States
Paleolinguists
Linguists of Nostratic languages
Fairleigh Dickinson University alumni
Hunter College alumni
United States Army soldiers
Linguists of Indo-European languages
Linguists of Eskaleut languages
Long-range comparative linguists