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Publication details [#30296]

Michalove, Peter A. 2002. The nostratic "accusative" in *-mA: An Altaic perspective. Anthropological Linguistics 44 (1) : 85–95.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | function | language origins | suffix

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This reevaluation of the Nostratic theory, proposing a genetic affiliation among many Eurasian languages, explores an important morphological isogloss in the theory, the suffix *-mA, especially with regard to the Altaic family.