Salmons J.C., Joseph B.D. Nostratic: Sifting the Evidenсe

John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1998. — 292 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 142). — ISBN: 9027236461.The “Nostratic” hypothesis — positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic — has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics.Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another’s arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant genetic relationships generally.The volume contains discussion of variants of the Nostratic hypothesis (A. Bomhard; J. Greenberg; A. Manaster-Ramer, K. Baertsch, K. Adams, & P. Michalove), the mathematics of chance in determining the relationships posited for Nostratic (R. Oswalt; D. Ringe), and the evidence from particular branches posited in Nostratic (L. Campbell; C. Hodge; A. Vovin), with responses and additional discussion by E. Hamp, B. Vine, W. Baxter and B. Comrie.Joseph . Salmons & Brian D. Joseph
The Nature and Status of Nostratic
Some Draft Principles for Classification
Eric P. 
Nostratic, Eurasiatic, and Indo-European
Allan R. Bomhard
The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic
Joseph H. Greenberg
Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis
Alexis Manaster Ramer, Peter A. Michalove,
Karen S. Baertsch and Karen L. Adams
Indo-European and Nostratic: Some further comments
Brent Vine
Nostratic: A personal assessment
Lyle Campbell
The Mathematics of Nostratic
A Probabilistic Evaluation of Indo-Uralic
Don Ringe
A Probabilistic Evaluation of North Eurasiatic Nostratic
Robert L. Oswalt
Response to Oswalt and Ringe
William H. Baxter
Relationships within Nostratic
The Implications of Lislakh for Nostratic
Carleton T. Hodge
Nostratic and Altaic
Alexander Vovin
Regular Sound Correspondences and
Long-Distance Genetic Comparison
Bernard Comrie
Indices
Index of Subjects
Index of Languages
Index of Names