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    Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily: A Comparative Study of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic Proto-Languages
    Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily: A Comparative Study of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic Proto-Languages
    Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily: A Comparative Study of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic Proto-Languages
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    Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily: A Comparative Study of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic Proto-Languages

    By Yan Kapranov, Bożena Iwanowska and Bolesław Cieślik

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    This monograph presents a groundbreaking exploration into the Nostratic macrofamily, a concept that proposes a common ancestral language for several of the world's foremost language families. The study delves deep into the roots of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic languages, offering a unique perspective on their interconnections and evolutionary paths. The authors examine five pivotal Nostratic etymons from the Swadesh index to illustrate the shared cognitive frameworks of these diverse linguistic groups. This research challenges conventional perspectives on language evolution and introduces new methodologies in cognitive macro-comparative studies. Key to the work is the hypothesis of divergent-convergent and convergent-divergent evolutionary patterns stemming from a common Nostratic origin. Beyond linguistics, this study offers insights into human cognitive development, language formation, and change mechanisms.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherV&R Unipress
    Release dateJun 17, 2024
    ISBN9783847017301
    Diachronic Interpretation of the Nostratic Macrofamily: A Comparative Study of Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic Proto-Languages
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    Yan Kapranov

    Dr Yan Kapranov is an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland), and a professor at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (Ukraine). He leads the UEHS Academic and Research Center for Multilingualism in Corpus Translation and Interpreting Studies. His research interests are related to cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics.

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