Shevoroshkin V. (ed.) Reconstructing languages and cultures

Abstracts and materials from the first International Interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8 - 12 November, 1988. — Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1989. — 190 p. — (Bochum publications in evolutionary cultural semiotics; vol. 20). — ISBN 3-88339-708-3.List of Participants.
V. Shevoroshkin. A Symposium on the Deep Reconstruction of Languages and Cultures.
K. Rowenchuk. Remarks on the Symposium.
R. Bulatova. Illič-Svityč: A Biographical Sketch.
Abstracts.
J. Bengtson. On the Fallacy of 'Diminishing Returns' in Long Range Lexical Comparison.
H. Birnbaum. Genetic and Typological Approaches to External Comparison of Languages.
V. Blažek. Materials for Global Etymologies.
V. Dybo. Indo-European and East-Nostratic Velar Stops.
J. Greenberg. The Prehistory of the Proto-Indo-European Vowel System in Comparative and Typological Perspective.
M. Kaiser. Remarks on Historical Phonology: From Nostratic to Indo-European.
M. Key. The Red Marbles of Phonological and Semantic Stability through the Ages.
S. Lamb. Implications of the Nature of Language for Long-Range Genetic Classification.
K. Menges. East-Nostratic: Altaic and Dravidian.
S. Nikolaev. Eyak-Athapascan — North-Caucasian Sound correspondences.
I. Peiros. The Linguistic Situation in Southeast Asia.
I. Peiros, V. Shnirelman. Toward an Understanding of Proto-Dravidian Prehistory.
E. Polomé. Indo-European and Substrate Languages in the West.
G. Pope. The Origin of Asian Populations.
M. Ruhlen. Nostratic-Amerind Cognates.
V. Shnirelman. Historical Linguistics through the Eyes of a Non-Linguist.
R. Wescott. Linguistic Proto-History.
Preliminary reports.
A. Dolgopolsky. Problems of Nostratic Comparative Phonology.
A. Dolgopolsky. On Lateral Obstruents in Hamito-Semitic.
A. Manaster-Ramer. Language, History and Computation.
Reconstructions.
O. Mudrak. Eskaleutian Roots.
V.M. Illič-Svityč. [Early Reconstructions of Nostratic] translated and re-arranged alphabetically by M. Kaiser.