Zur Rekonstruktion des Proto-Nostratischen oder: wie man eine anti-omnicomparatistische Kampfschrift verfaßt
On reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, or: How to write an anti-omnicomparatistic polemic

Summary/Abstract: The following article deals with A. R. Bomhard’s latest attempts to reconstruct “Proto- Nostratic” (which forms a synthesis of Nostratic proto- language as proposed by the Nostraticists of the “Moscow Nostratic school” and J. H. Greenberg’s “Eurasiatic”) in a somehow ironical way. Bomhard claims to have reconstructed the phonology as well as the vocabulary and morphology of this supposed macro- family in his bulky two- volume- work. The reviewer criticizes this especially the methodological weakness of these attempts.

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