Table of contents
I. The Nature and Status of Nostratic
Some Draft Principles for Classification13
Nostratic, Eurasiatic, and Indo-European17
The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic51
Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis61
Indo-European and Nostratic: Some further comments85
Nostratic: A personal assessment107
II. The Mathematics of Nostratic
A Probabilistic Evaluation of Indo-Uralic153
A Probabilistic Evaluation of North Eurasiatic Nostratic199
Response to Oswalt and Ringe217
III. Relationships within Nostratic
The Implications of Lislakh for Nostratic237
Regular Sound Correspondences and Long-Distance Genetic Comparison271
Indices
Index of Subjects277
Index of Languages281
Index of Names287
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