Allan R. Bomhard
Template:COITemplate:Short description Template:Pp-blp Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Allan R. Bomhard (born July 10 1943)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is an American independent scholar writing books and predominantly self-published papers in the field of comparative linguistics and Buddhism. He is part of a small group of proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis, according to which the Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Afroasiatic languages, and the Altaic languages would all belong to a larger macrofamily. As a prominent proponent of Nostratic, Bomhard's work has received attention from mainstream linguists and occasionally been discussed in linguistic sources. The majority of his work has been self published or printed thorough vanity presses.<ref name=nyt>Template:Cite news</ref> Mainstream linguists have dismissed his theories.<ref name="nyt" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
Criticism
His theory about Nostratic languages is widely rejected by mainstream linguists as a fringe theory.<ref name="nyt" /><ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> Among Nostratists, he has been described as "a maximalist who casts his nets as widely as possible" among far-flung languages not generally believed to be related.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Russian linguists Georgiy Starostin, Mikhail Zhivlov, and Alexei Kassian have criticized his work as imprecise and "historically unrealistic".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Books
- Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.<ref>Reviews of Toward Proto-Nostratic:
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- Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis. Charleston: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing, 1996.<ref>Reviews of Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis:
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- 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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language. Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship, 2012.
- A Sketch of Proto-Indo-Anatolian Phonology. Florence, SC USA, 2024.
with John C. Kerns:
- The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship. Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.<ref>Reviews of The Nostratic Macrofamily:
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with Arnaud Fournet:
- The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian. La Garenne Colombes / Charleston, 2010.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
See also
- Hermann Möller, Danish linguist
References
External links
- Allan Bomhard at Academia.edu
- Allan R. Bomhard: Nostratic linguistics is in full agreement with standard, recognized methodologies, 2019 interview