Allan R. Bomhard

Allan R. Bomhard was born in 1943. He is an American linguist, who has studied the controversial hypotheses about the underlying unity among the proposed Nostratic and Eurasiatic language families.

Contents

1 Publications 1.1 Articles 1.2 Books 1.3 Non-Linguistic Publications

Publications

Articles

• 1973: “Some Anatolian Etymologies”. Revue Hittite et Asianique XXXI:111—113.
• 1975: “An Outline of the Historical Phonology of Indo-European”. Orbis XXIV/2:354—390.
• 1976: “The Placing of the Anatolian Languages”. Orbis XXV/2:199—239.
• 1977: “The Indo-European/Semitic Hypothesis Re-examined”. Journal of Indo-European Studies 5/1:55—99.
• 1979a: “The Indo-European Phonological System: New Thoughts about its Reconstruction and Development”. Orbis XXVIII/1:66—110.
• 1979b: “Typological Studies and the Identification of the Indo-European Laryngeals”. Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemerényi, ed. by Bela Brogyanyí, part I, pp. 127—137. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 1981a: “Implications of ‘Rhotacism in Hieroglyphic Luwian’.” Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard, part I, p. 29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 1981b: “Indo-European and Afroasiatic: New Evidence for the Connection”. Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard, part II, pp. 351—474. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 1981c: “A New Look at Indo-European”. Journal of Indo-European Studies 9.3/4:332—337.
• 1981d: “Speculations on the Prehistoric Development of the Indo-European Vowel System”. General Linguistics 21/3:164—193.
• 1982: Review of Kenneth Shields, Jr., Indo-European Noun Inflection: A Developmental History. General Linguistics 22/4:269—272.
• 1984: Review of Kenneth Shields, Jr., Indo-European Noun Inflection: A Developmental History. Diachronica I/1:137—141 (expanded version of Bomhard 1982).
• 1986a: “The Aspirated Stops of Proto-Indo-European”. Diachronica III/1:67—80.
• 1986b: Review of Vitalij V. Shevoroshkin and Thomas L. Markey, eds., Typology, Relationship, and Time. Diachronica III/2:269—282. (A revised version of this review appeared in Mother Tongue, issue 10, April 1990.)
• 1986c: “An Etymological Note: PIE *Hs-ter- ‘star’.” Journal of Indo-European Studies 14.1/2:191—192.
• 1986d: “Common Indo-European/Afroasiatic Roots: Supplement 1”. General Linguistics 26/4:225—257.
• 1988a: “Recent Trends in the Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Consonant System”. Historische Sprachforschung (formerly KZ) 101:2—25.
• 1988b: “The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Consonant System”. FUCUS: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman, pp. 113—140. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
• 1988c: “The Prehistoric Development of the Athematic Verbal Endings in Proto-Indo-European”. A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Benjamin Schwartz: Studies in Anatolian, Italic, and Other Indo-European Languages, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman, pp. 475—488. Louvain: Peeters.
• 1988d: “Современные направления реконструкции праиндоевропейского консонантизма [Recent Trends in the Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Consonant System]”. Вопросы Языкознания (Linguistic Inquiries) 1988/2:5—22. (Russian version of 1988a.)
• 1988e: “Реконструкция прасемитской системы согласных [The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Consonant System]”. Вопросы Языкознания (Linguistic Inquiries) 1988/5:50—65. (Russian version of 1988b.)
• 1989: “Очерк сравнительной фонологии так называемых ‘ностратических’ яазыков [A Survey of the Comparative Phonology of the So-Called ‘Nostratic’ Languages]”. Вопросы Языкознания (Linguistic Inquiries) 1989/3:33—50. (Russian version of 1990.)
• 1990: “A Survey of the Comparative Phonology of the So-Called ‘Nostratic Languages’.” Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. by Philip Baldi, pp. 331—358. The Hague, Paris, and New York, NY: Mouton.
• 1991: “Lexical Parallels between Proto-Indo-European and Other Languages”. Studia Etymologica Indoeuropaea: Memoriae A. J. Van Windekens (1915—1989) Dicata, ed. by L. Isebaërt, pp. 47—106. Leuven: Peeters.
• 1992a: “Distant Linguistic Comparison and the Nostratic Hypothesis”. FAIES Newsletter II/1 (March 1992).
• 1992b: “The Nostratic Macrofamily (with Special Reference to Indo-European)”. Word 43/1:61—83.
• 1992c: “Придыхательные смычные в праиндоевропейском [The Aspirated Stops of Proto-Indo-European]”. Вопросы Языкознания (Linguistic Inquiries) 1992/2:48—58. (Russian version of 1986a.)
• 1992d: “‘Закон Стертеванта’ в хеттском: реинтерпретацня [Sturtevant’s Law in Hittite: A Reassessment]”. Вопросы Языкознания (Linguistic Inquiries) 1992/4:5—11.
• 1993a: “Развитие личных показателей атематических глаголов в праиндо-европейском [The Prehistoric Development of the Athematic Verbal Endings in Proto-Indo-European]”. Вопросы Языкознания (Linguistic Inquiries) 1993/2:42—49. (Russian version of 1988c.)
• 1993b: “Linguistic Methodology and Distant Linguistic Comparison”. Mother Tongue 20:1—4.
• 1994: “Comments on Colarusso’s Paper ‘Phyletic Links between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Northwest Caucasian’.” Mother Tongue 22:1—10.
• 1995: “Some Nostratic Etymologies: Supplement I”. Orbis XXXVIII/2:1—57.
• 1996: “The Root in Indo-European and Afroasiatic”. Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures: Memorial Volume of Karel Petráček, ed. by Petr Zemánek, pp. 161—170. Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute.
• 1997a: Review of Saul Levin, Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies. Diachronica XIV/1:131—136.
• 1997b: “On the Origin of Sumerian”. Mother Tongue III:75—92.
• 1998: “Nostratic, Eurasiatic, and Indo-European”. Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, ed. by Brian D. Joseph and Joseph C. Salmons, pp. 17—49. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
• 1999a: Review of Aaron Dolgopolsky, The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology. Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily, ed. by Colin Renfrew and Daniel Nettle, pp. 47—74. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
• 1999b: “Sturtevant’s Law in Hittite: A Reassessment”. Studies on the Pre-Greek Languages in Memory of Charles Carter, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman, pp. 35—46. Leuven and Paris: Peeters. (Revised and expanded version of 1992d.)
• 2000: “Next of Kin: The Search for Relatives of Indo-European”. Festschrift for Konrad Koerner, ed. by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph, and Hans-Josef Niederehe, pp. 397—404. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
• 2002a: “Reflections on Greenberg’s Indo-European and its Closest Relatives”. Mother Tongue VII:85—114.
• 2002b: “Etruscan, Indo-European, and Nostratic”. The Linguist’s Linguist: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, ed. by Fabrice Cavoto. 2 vols. München: Lincom Europa.
• To appear: “Preliminary Thoughts on Nostratic Morphology.” Papers from the Nostratic Centennial Conference Held at the University of Pécs, Hungary, 21—23 August 2003, ed. by Irén Hegedűs and Paul Sidwell.

Books

• Allan R. Bomhard
  • 1984: Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 27.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 356 pp.
  • 1996: Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis. Charleston, SC: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing. 265 pp.
  • In Preparation: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic: Comparative Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary. Ca. 1400 pp.
• Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard (eds.)
  • 1981: Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 16, parts I and II.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1,076 pp.
• Allan R. Bomhard and John C. Kerns
  • 1994: The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship. Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. 932 pp.
• J. Peter Maher, Allan R. Bomhard, and Konrad Koerner (eds.)
  • 1982: Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 13.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 434 pp.

Non-Linguistic Publications

• Allan R. Bomhard
  • 2002: The Essential Teachings of Buddhism. Booklet compiled from various sources by Allan R. Bomhard. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. The main part of this booklet is based upon a radio lecture given in Colombo, Śri Lanka, in 1933 by Nyanatiloka Mahāthera (1878—1957) entitled “The Essence of Buddhism” and published by the Buddhist Publication Society as part of Fundamentals of Buddhism: Four Lectures (Wheel Publication no. 394/396 [1994]), pp. 1—13. The current version has been thoroughly revised, rearranged, and greatly expanded (material has been included from many different sources) — numerous quotations from the early scriptures have been added, and both Sanskrit and Pali terms are given for key concepts. 50 pp.
  • 2003: East Meets West: Buddhism and Science. Compiled and edited by Allan R. Bomhard. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship.
• Nārada Mahāthera and Allan R. Bomhard
  • 2003: The Buddha and His Teachings. 5th edition, extensively revised and expanded by Allan R. Bomhard. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. Comprehensive reference manual of Theravādin Buddhism based upon the 4th edition (1988) of Nārada Mahāthera’s book of the same name, published by the Buddhist Missionary Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 473 pp.