George Starostin
List of John Benjamins publications in which George Starostin is involved.
Articles
2025 Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic) Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:3, pp. 463–481 | Article
Relationships between universally recognized language families represent a hotly debated topic in historical linguistics, and the same is true for correlation between signals of genetic and linguistic relatedness. We developed a weighted permutation test which represents the classical… read more
2017 Chapter 9. Macrofamilies and agricultural lexicon: Problems and perspectives Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 215–233 | Chapter
It is more or less self-evident that the origins of agriculture cannot be directly associated with the ancestral speakers of any of the commonly accepted, non-controversial language families such as Indo-European, Semitic, Dravidian, etc., since these origins go much deeper back in time than any… read more