Index of scholars discussed

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Photographs xv
6. Works of Harold Crane Fleming xix
7. Part I. African peoples
8. Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography 3
9. A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV 17
10. African weeks 25
11. Part II. African languages – synchronic studies
12. Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla 39
13. Riddling in Gidole 49
14. Part III. African languages – Classification and prehistory
15. Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages 57
16. The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules 149
17. Erosion in Chadic 161
18. On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages 169
19. The problem of pan-African roots 189
20. Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas
21. Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers 213
22. Some Old World experience of linguistic dating 223
23. The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation 241
24. Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia 263
25. Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific 287
26. Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary? 309
27. Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies 321
28. Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language
29. Current topics in human evolutionary genetics 343
30. A wild 50,000-year ride 359
31. Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language? 373
32. The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism 381
33. Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution 401
34. The age of Mama and Papa 417
35. The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals 439
36. General index 465
37. Index of languages and languages families 471
38. Index of scholars discussed 475