Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. An Overview of Genetic Classification 9
6. 2. The Basis of Linguistic Classification 39
7. 3. Khoisan Etymologies 45
8. 4 Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with, Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons 70
9. 5. Na-Dene Etymologies 93
10. 6. Is Algonquian Amerind? 111
11. 7. A Semantic Index to Greenberg's Amerind Etymologies 127
12. 8. Additional Amerind Etymologies 156
13. 9. Amerind T'AJNA 'Child, Sibling' 183
14. 10. The Linguistic Origins of Native Americans 207
15. 11. Amerind MALIQ' A 'Swallow, Throat' and Its Origin in the Old World 242
16. 12. First- and Second-Person Pronouns in the World's Languages 252
17. 13. The Origin of Language: Retrospective and Prospective 261
18. 14. Global Etymologies 277
19. Index 337