Allan R. Bomhard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Allan R. Bomhard is involved.

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Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic

Allan R. Bomhard

This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 27] 1984. xi, 356 pp.

Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977

Edited by J. Peter Maher, Allan R. Bomhard and E.F.K. Koerner †

The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 13] 1982. xvi, 434 pp.

Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)

Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard

The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 16] 1981. xvi, 557, viii, 581 pp.

Bomhard, Allan R. 2008 Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, Bengtson, John D. (ed.), pp. 213–221 | Article

This paper takes a fresh look at the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers. Evidence is presented that the earliest form of the number “two” was (in traditional reconstruction) *do- and that the form usually given in the standard handbooks, namely, *duwō/*dwō, was a later… read more

Bomhard, Allan R. 2004 Indo-European *men- and *tel- Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg, Baldi, Philip and Pietro U. Dini (eds.), pp. 33–36 | Chapter

Bomhard, Allan R. 1999 27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 101–108 | Article

Bomhard, Allan R. 1998 Nostratic, Eurasiatic, and Indo-European Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, Salmons, Joseph C. and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 17–50 | Article

Bomhard, Allan R. 1997 Review of Levin (1995): Semitic and Indo-European: The principal etymologies Diachronica 14:1, pp. 131–136 | Review

Bomhard, Allan R. 1988 The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Consonant System Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman, Arbeitman, Yoël L. (ed.), pp. 113–140 | Article

Bomhard, Allan R. 1987 Publications Received/Ouvrages Reçus/Eingegangene Schriften Diachronica 4:1/2, pp. 269–279 | Miscellaneous

Bomhard, Allan R. 1986 Review of Shevoroshkin & Markey (1986): Typology, Relationship, and Time Diachronica 3:2, pp. 269–282 | Review

Bomhard, Allan R. 1986 The Aspirated Stops of Proto-Indo-European Diachronica 3:1, pp. 67–79 | Article

SUMMARY The traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system consists of (1) plain voiceless stops, (2) voiceless aspirates, (3) plain voiced stops, and (4) voiced aspirates. A review of the data from the daughter languages shows that series 1 should be reinterpreted as voiceless… read more

Bomhard, Allan R. 1984 Review of Shields & Schmalstieg (1982): Indo-European Noun Inflection: A Developmental History Diachronica 1:1, pp. 137–141 | Review

Bomhard, Allan R. 1981 Indo-European and Afroasiatic: New evidence for the connetction Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes), Arbeitman, Yoël L. and Allan R. Bomhard (eds.), pp. 351–474 | Article

Bomhard, Allan R. 1979 Typological studies and the identification of the Indo-European laryngeals Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Brogyanyi, Bela (ed.), pp. 123–137 | Article