Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. The Nature and Status of Nostratic
5. Some Draft Principles for Classification 13
6. Nostratic, Eurasiatic, and Indo-European 17
7. The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic 51
8. Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis 61
9. Indo-European and Nostratic 85
10. Nostratic 107
11. II. The Mathematics of Nostratic
12. A Probabilistic Evaluation of Indo-Uralic 153
13. A Probabilistic Evaluation of North Eurasiatic Nostratic 199
14. Response to Oswalt and Ringe 217
15. III. Relationships within Nostratic
16. The Implications of Lislakh for Nostratic 237
17. Nostratic and Altaic 257
18. Regular Sound Correspondences and Long-Distance Genetic Comparison 271
19. Indices
20. Index of Subjects 277
21. Index of Languages 281
22. Index of Names 287