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Claude Pierre Boisson - The Phonotactics of Sumerian
J. C. Catford - The Myth of the Primordial Click
Madhav M. Deshpande - Panini and the Distinctive Features
Joseph H. Greenberg - Does Altaic Exist?
Eric P. Hamp - A Far-Out Equation
Irén Hegedüs - On Grammaticalization in Nostratic
Pramila Hemrajani - Three Kisses
Peter Edwin Hook - Relative Clauses in Eastern Shina
Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov - Luwian Collective and Non-Collective Neutral Nouns in -ar
Brian D. Joseph - Macrorelationships and Microrelationships and their Relationship
Mark Kaiser - Rigor or Vigor: Whither Distant Linguistic Comparison?
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Alexis Manaster Ramer - The Polygenesis of Western Yiddish -- and the Monogenesis of Yiddish
Karl Heinrich Menges - Etymological Problems with Words for "Blood" in Nostratic and Beyond
Peter A. Michalove - Altaic Evidence for Clusters in Nostratic
Vladimir Orel - New Albanian Etymologies (Balkan Etymologies 116-145)
Ilya Peiros - Macro Families: Can a Mistake Be Detected?
Richard A. Rhodes - On Pronominal Systems
Merritt Ruhlen - Proto-Amerind "KAPA ‘Finger, Hand’ and Its Origin in the Old World
Sergei A. Starostin - On the "Consonant Splits" In Japanese
Alexander Vovin - Some Japanese Etymologies