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This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the major works of scholarship concerned with the ‘language isolates’ of the world. ‘Isolated’ languages are languages without any known relatives, languages which are not... more
This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the major works of scholarship concerned with the ‘language isolates’ of the world. ‘Isolated’ languages are languages without any known relatives, languages which are not demonstrably part of any ‘language family’, with Etruscan, Basque, and Ainu being arguably some of the best-known examples of such ‘linguistic orphans’. The language-specific materials collected here are arranged geographically, and each language-chapter is preceded by a short introduction to the linguistic situation of the language(es) involved and, if not given in anthologized works themselves, to the current state of research and past and present scholarly debates. The volumes are preceded by a problem-oriented general introduction, which deals with the basic concepts and methodological principles of language classification, the present state and the nature of ongoing controversies, an epistemiological typology of language families, and, in the light of this, a theoretical justification of the concept of isolates as well as the choice of languages covered in the volumes.
Some of the gathered works are general introductions to their object language (in terms of sociolinguistics, attestation, documentation, history of scholarship, guides to published studies, overviews of linguistic characteristics), others highlight and discuss particularly salient and interesting typological characteristics of an isolate (some of them are breakthrough studies for the understanding of a particular language), and others focus on the very status of the language under discussion as an isolate in the first place. Some isolated languages are still very much alive; at least one of them, Korean, is a major national language. The majority of the languages and small families covered here are endangered, and some will certainly cease to be used during the coming decades. Thus, isolated languages are particularly interesting objects for students of language endangerment, but they are also prime research objects for linguistic descriptionists, for, when they are gone, not only will another of the 6,000 or so human languages have disappeared, but, in those cases, whole linguistic lineages (and their ways of coping with the world) will be gone forever.
Some of the gathered works are general introductions to their object language (in terms of sociolinguistics, attestation, documentation, history of scholarship, guides to published studies, overviews of linguistic characteristics), others highlight and discuss particularly salient and interesting typological characteristics of an isolate (some of them are breakthrough studies for the understanding of a particular language), and others focus on the very status of the language under discussion as an isolate in the first place. Some isolated languages are still very much alive; at least one of them, Korean, is a major national language. The majority of the languages and small families covered here are endangered, and some will certainly cease to be used during the coming decades. Thus, isolated languages are particularly interesting objects for students of language endangerment, but they are also prime research objects for linguistic descriptionists, for, when they are gone, not only will another of the 6,000 or so human languages have disappeared, but, in those cases, whole linguistic lineages (and their ways of coping with the world) will be gone forever.
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Linguists and specialists on Siberia are generally familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language, widely regarded as a linguistic enigma in many respects. Ket is a severely endangered... more
Linguists and specialists on Siberia are generally familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language, widely regarded as a linguistic enigma in many respects. Ket is a severely endangered language with today ...
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Research Interests: Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, and 26 moreLinguistic Anthropology, Typology, Tibetan Studies, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), Language Documentation, Endangered Languages, Linguistics, Himalayan Civilization-Nepal, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Nepal, Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Functional Grammar, Language Typology, Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Descriptive Linguistics, Tamang, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Documentation, Indigenous Languages, Sociolinguistics, Field Linguistics, Himalayas, Grammar, Nepalese languages, Himalayan Languages, Tibeto-Burman, bodish languages of the Himalayan chain, Sino-Tibetan languages, and Tamangic Languages
This short note serves the purpose of setting the record of the decipherment of the Mongolian Khüis Tolgoi and Bugut inscriptions straight. Until recently, the Brāhmī inscriptions on the Khüis Tolgoi and Bugut stelae in Mongolia remained... more
This short note serves the purpose of setting the record of the decipherment of the Mongolian Khüis Tolgoi and Bugut inscriptions straight. Until recently, the Brāhmī inscriptions on the Khüis Tolgoi and Bugut stelae in Mongolia remained undeciphered, and any knowledge concerning the language in which they were written had been lost centuries ago. Finally, in the 2000s, Dieter Maue, an epigraphist and a leading specialist on the Brāhmī script, made a new reading of the inscriptions, allowing, for the first time, the question concerning the underlying language to be approached in a meaningful way. Then, the French historian Étienne de La Vaissière invited Alexander Vovin, during the latter's visit to Paris, to have a look at Maue's reading of the Khüis Tolgoi inscription. Vovin recognized the language as Mongolic, but there were still too many unidentifiable words and grammatical forms to allow for a complete translation. In 2014, an international team consisting of Dieter Maue (Germany), Alexander Vovin (USA, then already permanently working in France), Mehmet Ölmez (Turkey), and Étienne de La Vaissière (France) was formed, and the group travelled to Mongolia, accompanied by two specialists in 3D photography with the relevant instruments for taking 3D pictures. The principal objective was to document the inscriptions as completely as possible. The team surveyed the inscriptions and took 3D pictures of the Khüis Tolgoi I and Brāhmī Bugut inscriptions, but could not do the same with Khüis Tolgoi II due to circumstances beyond the team's control. For more details on the team's travel to Mongolia, see Ölmez (2018). After the survey, Dieter Maue revised his epigraphic analysis and Alexander Vovin offered a first linguistic analysis and interpretation of the texts. The results were reported at the
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T. Osada/A. Vovin (edd.): 日本語の系統論えの展望 Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language, Kyoto: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyu Senta/ International Center for Japanese Studies An old paper. A really old and youthful paper. I removed it... more
T. Osada/A. Vovin (edd.): 日本語の系統論えの展望 Perspectives on the
Origins of the Japanese Language, Kyoto: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyu
Senta/ International Center for Japanese Studies
An old paper. A really old and youthful paper. I removed it from this site some years ago, when its very existence (or, then, mine) sparked an amount of open contempt, even hatred, which I couldn't expect even in the hotly polemic field of "Altaic" linguistics. And, yes, it contains (at least) one mistake - according to a particularly prolific poster (poseur?) on academia.edu nothing less than the one major sin of the whole discipline ever since 1836 or so. Unforgivable, and reason enough to try to whatever might be humanly possible to expel its perpetrator from this field (and, congrats, with full success!). It is a really big, a really abominable blunder. See if you can spot it (because I forgot, but it sure is there, still after all these years, it must be). And, of course (as if this would have to be underlined, but alas, it has!) every bit of this comes from my own ailing head, including, of course, every slip, and every blunder.
Origins of the Japanese Language, Kyoto: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyu
Senta/ International Center for Japanese Studies
An old paper. A really old and youthful paper. I removed it from this site some years ago, when its very existence (or, then, mine) sparked an amount of open contempt, even hatred, which I couldn't expect even in the hotly polemic field of "Altaic" linguistics. And, yes, it contains (at least) one mistake - according to a particularly prolific poster (poseur?) on academia.edu nothing less than the one major sin of the whole discipline ever since 1836 or so. Unforgivable, and reason enough to try to whatever might be humanly possible to expel its perpetrator from this field (and, congrats, with full success!). It is a really big, a really abominable blunder. See if you can spot it (because I forgot, but it sure is there, still after all these years, it must be). And, of course (as if this would have to be underlined, but alas, it has!) every bit of this comes from my own ailing head, including, of course, every slip, and every blunder.
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L'A. revient dans cette etude critique sur le dernier ouvrage de Joseph H. Greenberg, Indo-European and its closest relatives : The Eurasiatic language family (2000), ou ce dernier tente de rassembler dans une meme famille... more
L'A. revient dans cette etude critique sur le dernier ouvrage de Joseph H. Greenberg, Indo-European and its closest relatives : The Eurasiatic language family (2000), ou ce dernier tente de rassembler dans une meme famille linguistique plus importante (a savoir le groupe eurasiatique) les langues indo-europeennes, 'altaiques' et autres familles de langues du vieux monde. Les principales critiques adressees a Greenberg concernent sa methode de comparaison de masses des langues en question, son traitement des donnees, qui consiste en une comparaison 'multilaterale' de la similarite de surface, portant peu d'importance a la regularite phonologique. L'A. analyse plus particulierement les parametres morphologiques pris en compte par Greenberg pour sa classification.
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Research Interests: African Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Contact Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, and 15 moreAltaic Linguistics, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Altaistic, Derivational Morphology, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Altaic Theory, Altaic Philology, Altaic Languages, Altaic Studies, Altaic, Altaic Hypothesis, Ancient Indo European Languages, Altaic Etymology, and Altaic linguistic affinity
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Iran and the Caucasus 19, 2015, 3-7
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Botany, Historical Linguistics, Armenian Studies, and 15 moreEtymology, Iranian Studies, History of Iran, Caucasus, Armenian History, Armenian Culture, Altaic Linguistics, Armenian Language, Armenia, Language and Etymology, History of Botany, Altaic Theory, Altaic Philology, Altaic Languages, and Altaic Studies
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Paradigmatic morphology is a central and crucial concept for several branches of comparative linguistics. The observation of shared paradigms in languages which were not suspected of having a common ancestry stands at the cradle of modern... more
Paradigmatic morphology is a central and crucial concept for several branches of comparative linguistics. The observation of shared paradigms in languages which were not suspected of having a common ancestry stands at the cradle of modern genealogical linguistics and dominates the discussion(s) about not firmly established or merely putative language families or phyla to this day, the very different morphological techniques different languages use for the formation of paradigms mark the beginning of language typology, now a major pillar of the language sciences, and the question, to which degree languages—closely, distantly, or not at all related with each other—may borrow morphological paradigms (part or whole) from each other or might have done so in the past (which, if true and not properly detected, might lead to superficially persuasive, but factually erroneous, claims and hypotheses of genealogical relatedness) continues to be an important theoretical and practical issue in co...
Research Interests: African Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Contact Linguistics, Altaic Linguistics, and 15 moreCentral Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Dravidian Linguistics, Altaistic, Derivational Morphology, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Altaic Theory, Altaic Philology, Altaic Languages, Altaic Studies, Altaic, Altaic Hypothesis, Ancient Indo European Languages, Altaic Etymology, and Altaic linguistic affinity
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Research Interests: Anthropology, Balkan linguistics, Albanian Studies, Balkan History, Albanian Nationalism, and 15 moreAnthropology of the Balkans, Albania, Ancient Balkan Languages, Ancient Illyria, Ancient Balkanic Languages, Ancient Illyricum, Albanian morphology, Balkanlar, Albanian language, Albanology, Albanologoy, Albanian Linguistics, Albanian, Albanians, and Ancient Indo European Languages
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Abstract: This paper revisits the etymology of the European toponym ‘Tibet’, and assumes, based on the thourough discussion of the problem by Róna-Tas (1985), that the second syllable of this name is, after all, historically identical... more
Abstract: This paper revisits the etymology of the European toponym ‘Tibet’,
and assumes, based on the thourough discussion of the problem by Róna-Tas
(1985), that the second syllable of this name is, after all, historically identical
with the Tibetan autonym bod. The vocalism of the first syllable remains problematic,
but seems to originate with the works of Portuguese missionaries of the
XVIIth century, from where it stabilized in other European languages. Its explanation
as being due to Kipchak-Turkic reflexes of *tepe ‘hill’ seems to be less likely.
and assumes, based on the thourough discussion of the problem by Róna-Tas
(1985), that the second syllable of this name is, after all, historically identical
with the Tibetan autonym bod. The vocalism of the first syllable remains problematic,
but seems to originate with the works of Portuguese missionaries of the
XVIIth century, from where it stabilized in other European languages. Its explanation
as being due to Kipchak-Turkic reflexes of *tepe ‘hill’ seems to be less likely.
Research Interests: Languages, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Humanities, Social Anthropology, and 48 moreLanguages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Etymology, Linguistic Anthropology, Tibetan Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Studies, Onomastics, Toponomastics, Himalayan culture, South Asia, Central Asian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Central Asia (History), Tibet, Eurasia, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Mission Studies, Place Names (Cultural Geography), Linguistics, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Central Eurasian Studies, Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Travel Literature, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Old Turkic, Tibetan and Himalayan societies, Toponymy, Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Lingüística, India, Tibetology, Language and Etymology, Himalayas, Turkic Linguistics, Old Turkic Culture, Tibetan History, Place Names, MARCO POLO, Tibetan Language, Classical Tibetan Language, Toponomastica, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı, Toponimia, Turkic languages, Onomástica, and Turkic & Altaic Studies
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Research Interests: Languages, History, Cultural History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, and 56 moreAnthropology, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Ethnography, Japanese Language And Culture, Linguistic Anthropology, Typology, Indian studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Korean Studies, South Asia, Japanese History, Comparative Linguistics, Minority Studies, Siberia, Linguistics, Himalayan Civilization-Nepal, Minority Languages, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Nepal, Altaic Linguistics, Russian Language, Yeniseian Languages, Andaman Islands, Cultural Anthropology, Northeast Asia, Language Typology, Linguistic Typology, Linguistic Diversity (Languages And Linguistics), Russia, Lingüística, India, Historia, Himalayas, Antropología, Classification, Siberian Studies, Korean language, Foreign languages, Kusunda Language, Siberian Ethnography (Anthropology), языкознание, Sakhalin Island, Rural Nepal, Yukaghir, Yeniseian linguistics, Andaman and Nicobar islands, Altaic Languages, Altaic Studies, Taalkunde, Palaeasiatic Languages, Turkic & Altaic Studies, and Yukaghir Language
Paradigmatic morphology is a central and crucial concept for several branches of comparative linguistics. The observation of shared paradigms in languages which were not suspected of having a common ancestry stands at the cradle of modern... more
Paradigmatic morphology is a central and crucial concept for several branches of comparative linguistics. The observation of shared paradigms in languages which were not suspected of having a common ancestry stands at the cradle of modern ge-nealogical linguistics and dominates the discussion(s) about not firmly established or merely putative language families or phyla to this day, the very different morphological techniques different languages use for the formation of paradigms mark the beginning of language typology, now a major pillar of the language sciences, and the question, to which degree languages—closely, distantly, or not at all related with each other— may borrow morphological paradigms (part or whole) from each other or might have done so in the past (which, if true and not properly detected, might lead to superficially persuasive, but factually erroneous, claims and hypotheses of genealogical relatedness) continues to be an important theoretical and practical issue in comparative linguistics. The contributions to this volume address, i. a., all of these questions and areas and offer much food for thought about historical morphology, areal linguistics and, above all, language classification—going far beyond the " Altaic hypothesis " , which figures prominently in some of them.
Research Interests: Languages, History, African Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, and 89 moreAnthropology, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Indo-european language reconstruction, Japanese Language And Culture, Linguistic Anthropology, Hungarian, Korean Studies, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Japanese, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Siberia, Morphology, Korean linguistics, Language and Culture, Hungarian Studies, Linguistics, Japan, Turkic Speaking Peoples, Altaic Linguistics, Uralic Linguistics, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Old Turkic, Mongolian, Morphology (Languages And Linguistics), Indo-European Linguistics, Proto Indo-European, Tungusic languages, Morphology and Syntax, Lingüística, Dravidian Linguistics, Turkic/Altaic Studies, Altaistic, Turkic Linguistics, Antropología, Old Turkic Culture, Mongolian and Central Asian Studies, Siberian Studies, Indo-European, Manchu Studies, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Korean language, Uralic languages, Linguistics. Word-formation. Morphology. Lexicology. Semantics., Altaic Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Turkic Studies, Derivational Morphology, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Old Turkic, Old Uyghur, Siberian Languages, Siberian Ethnography (Anthropology), Mongolian Languages, Siberian Turkic languages, Siberian linguistics, Altaic Theory, Turkic languages, Manchu language, Language Families, Altaic Philology, Mongolian linguistics, Altaic Languages, Middle Mongol, Tungusic linguistics, verbal morphology, Korean linguistics, Tungusic linguistics, Tungusic, Altaic Studies, Altaic, Tungusic Languages, Areal typology, Genealogical Linguistics, Sprachwissenschaft, Areal inguistics, Turkic and Altaic Studies, Middle Mongolian language, Kitans (Khitans, Qidan), Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, Altaic Hypothesis, Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relationship, Altaic Etymology, Altaic linguistic affinity, and Ural-Altaic languages
Research Interests: Languages, Sociology, Asian Studies, Eastern European Studies, Russian Studies, and 30 moreAnthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Syntax, Eurasian Nomads, Eurasia, Comparative Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Morphology, Linguistics, Altaic Linguistics, Central Asia, Morphology (Languages And Linguistics), Morphology and Syntax, Russia, Lingüística, Kalmyk, Altaic Languages, Altaic Studies, Sprachwissenschaft, Oirat History, Oirats, and Kalmyk Language
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A reworked version of the author's inaugural lecture from 2009 on the occasion of his Habilitation with the venia legendi for 'Altaische Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft', now published in: Zentralasiatische Studien des Seminars für Sprach-... more
A reworked version of the author's inaugural lecture from 2009 on the occasion of his Habilitation with the venia legendi for 'Altaische Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft', now published in: Zentralasiatische Studien des Seminars für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft Zentralasiens der Universität Bonn 39, 2009 (= Festschrift Veronika Veit)
Research Interests: Philology, Languages, History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, and 110 moreCultural Studies, Human Geography, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics, Communication, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Phonology, Middle East Studies, Japanese Language And Culture, Middle East History, Etymology, Linguistic Anthropology, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Arabic, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Korean Studies, East Asia, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Persian Language, Eurasian Nomads, Asian History, Culture, Central Asia (History), East Asian Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Comparative Linguistics, Siberia, Ethnology, Korean linguistics, China, Ethnic minorities, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian History, Linguistics, Minority Languages, Central Eurasian Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Pseudoscience, China studies, Turkish Linguistics, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Old Turkic, Nomadic Peoples, Nomadism, Language Change, Bulgarian history, Turkish Language, Tungusic languages, Prehistory, Persian, Russia, Lingüística, Middle East, Historia, Turkic/Altaic Studies, Oriental Studies, Language and Etymology, Rhotics, Turkic Linguistics, Indoeuropean Studies, Nomads, Mongolian and Central Asian Studies, Siberian Studies, Nostratic, Korean language, Chuvash language, Sound change, Altaic Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Foreign languages, Siberian Languages, Turkish Language and Literature, Siberian Ethnography (Anthropology), Siberian Turkic languages, Etymologia, 日本語, языкознание, Siberian linguistics, Altaic Theory, Altaictic, Language Families, Altaic Philology, корейский язык, Altaic Languages, монгол хэл, Tungusic linguistics, verbal morphology, Tungusic, Altaic Studies, Altaic, Taalkunde, Rhotacism, Lenguas, Sprachwissenschaft, Turkic and Altaic Studies, Magyar nyelv és irodalom, Językoznawstwo, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, Altaic Hypothesis, хэл, Алтаистика, Altaic Etymology, Altaic linguistic affinity, and Lenguas Altaicas
Iran and the Caucasus 19, 2015, 3-7
Research Interests: Philology, History, Cultural History, Botany, Sociology, and 82 moreCultural Studies, Communication, Humanities, History of Ideas, Ottoman History, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Armenian Studies, Cultural Heritage, Sociolinguistics, Etymology, Linguistic Anthropology, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Comparative Semitic Linguistics, Iranian Studies, Plant Biology, Mongolian Studies, History of Iran, Anatolian History, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Caucasus, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Comparative Linguistics, Agriculture, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, History of Scholarship, Armenian History, Turkey And Europe, Classical Armenian, Armenian Culture, Medicinal Plants, Ottoman Balkans, Linguistics, Russian Studies (in Area Studies) and the Caucasus, Iranian History, North Caucasus, Culinary History, Modern Turkey, Altaic Linguistics, Turkish, Turkmen and Azerbaijan Languages, Comparative Semitics, Minorities in Turkey, Paremiology, Turco-Iranian World, Nature, Armenian Language, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iranian Languages, Tungusic languages, Animal Husbandry, Turkology, Lingüística, Historia, Oriental Studies, South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) in Prehistory, Language and Etymology, Mongolia, South Caucasus, Armenian Linguistics, Mongol, Botanica, Türkoloji, Ottoman Armenians, History of Botany, Indo-European Etymology, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı, Altaic Theory, Altaic Philology, Uwe Blaesing 2002, Uwe Blaesing 2010, Altaic Languages, Tungusic linguistics, verbal morphology, Tungusic, Altaic Studies, Paremiología, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, and Paremiological language contact
Der hier besprochene Text von J. Laakso findet sich unter: https://www.academia.edu/12898951/Dies_und_das_über_die_Sprachen_der_Welt
Research Interests: Languages, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, and 15 moreAltaic Linguistics, Uralic Linguistics, Finno-Ugric languages, Language contact, Turkic/Altaic Studies, Hungarian language, Uralic languages, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Uralic, Finno-Ugric studies, Language Classification, Language Families, Proto-Uralic, Genealogic Classification of Languages, and Finnougristics
Research Interests: History, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, and 10 moreEthnography, Linguistic Anthropology, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Central Eurasian Studies, Eurasian Prehistory, Prehistory, Langauges and linguistics, Nostratic, and Language Families
Research Interests: Languages, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, and 38 moreIndo-european language reconstruction, Etymology, Linguistic Anthropology, Indo-European Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Eurasia, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Central Eurasian Studies, Language, Indo-Iranian Linguistics, Pseudoscience, Uralic Linguistics, Eurasian Prehistory, Indo-European Linguistics, Lingüística, Language and Etymology, Turkic Linguistics, Diachronic Phonology, Classification, Siberian Studies, Indo-European, Nostratic, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Uralic languages, Proto Indo European, Indo-European Etymology, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Etymologia, Turkic languages, Language Families, Joseph Greenberg, Nostratic linguistics, Minestrone Linguistics, Nostratic Theory, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relationship, and Ancient Indo European Languages
Research Interests: Philology, Languages, Cultural History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and 28 moreAnthropology, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Ethnolinguistics, Communication, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Typology, Endangered Languages, Culture, Ethnology, Linguistics, Geolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Language Typology, Linguistic Typology, Classification, Diachronic linguistics, Foreign languages, Language Classification, Language Families, Languages of the world, Sprachwissenschaft, and Sprachen
(in German): This paper was meant, and submitted, for the second volume of a Festschrift for Michael Weiers, which was expected to be published not much later than 2003 (!). While the first volume of this FS did see the light, the second... more
(in German): This paper was meant, and submitted, for the second volume of a Festschrift for Michael Weiers, which was expected to be published not much later than 2003 (!). While the first volume of this FS did see the light, the second volume, for which this contribution was intended, never did. I have no information whatsoever about the intention, if any, of the editor to eventually publish this volume, nor do I know anything concrete about his whereabouts, so I publish this piece here. It makes use of some contents I published elsewhere in the meantime, so it might seem to be somewhat repetitive.
Research Interests: Languages, Cultural History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, and 58 moreAnthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Communication, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Linguistic Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Inner Asian Studies, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Culture, Central Asia (History), Comparative Linguistics, Siberia, Tocharian, Convergence, Linguistics, Language, Altaic Linguistics, Uralic Linguistics, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Indo-European Linguistics, Tungusic languages, Lingüística, Language contact, Turkic/Altaic Studies, Diachronic Syntax, Diachronic Phonology, Mongol, Areal linguistics, Siberian Studies, Uralic languages, Altaic Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Uralic, Uralic Etymology, Siberian Languages, Tokharians, Mongolian Languages, Altaic Theory, Language Family Tree, Altaic Philology, Altaic Languages, Proto-Uralic, Altaic Studies, Altaic, Tungusic Languages, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, Uralic Studies, Indo-Uralic, and Ewenki
Research Interests: Languages, Religion, Comparative Religion, Cultural History, Sociology, and 97 moreCultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Social Psychology, Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Ethnolinguistics, Historical Anthropology, Communication, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, History of Religion, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Etymology, Linguistic Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), Psycholinguistics, East Asia, Endangered Languages, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Shamanism, Culture, East Asian Studies, Comparative Linguistics, Siberia, History of Religions, Ancient Religion, Ethnology, Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistics, Minority Languages, Lexicography, Language, Altaic Linguistics, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnographic Methods, Anthropology of Shamanism, Indo-European Linguistics, Historical sociolinguistics, Tungusic languages, Endangered languages/cultures, Linguistic Typology, Lingüística, Religious Studies, Sociolinguistique, Ethnopsychology, Taboo, Manchu, Language and Etymology, Arctic, Dictionary, Altaistic, Russian exiles, Manchuria, History of Manchuria, Mongolian and Central Asian Studies, Euphemism, Siberian Studies, Manchu Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences, Taboo language, Foreign languages, Siberian Languages, Siberian Ethnography (Anthropology), Siberian Turkic languages, Etymologia, Endangered Languages and Cultures, Altaic Theory, Taboo Words, Manchu language, Linguistic, enthnolinguistic, Altaic Languages, Tungusic historical linguistics, comparatives, language contact, Tungusic, Altaic Studies, Nanai, Anthropology of Religion, Tungusic Languages, Sprachwissenschaft, Evenki, Central Asien Studies, Manchurica, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, Shaman Practice, and Ewenki
A quite innocent article, I suppose, but, as expected, the haters found it in the end and didn't miss the opportunity to let me know.
Research Interests: Philology, Languages, History, Cultural History, Sociology, and 46 moreCultural Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Communication, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), Cultural Theory, Identity (Culture), Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Culture, East Asian Studies, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Altaic Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Mongols, Tungusic languages, Lingüística, Mongolia, Altaistic, Turkic Linguistics, Mongol, Classification, Mongolian and Central Asian Studies, Altaic Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Mongolian Languages, Altaic Theory, Turkic languages, Altaic Languages, Altaic Studies, Mongolic Studies, Altaic, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Altaic Hypothesis, and Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relationship
Research Interests: Languages, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Communication, and 36 moreHumanities, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Siberia, Linguistics, Language, Altaic Linguistics, Language Typology, Tungusic languages, Endangered languages/cultures, Linguistic Typology, Lingüística, Manchu, Siberian Studies, Manchu Studies, Altaic Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Siberian Languages, Jurchen, Siberian linguistics, Altaic Theory, Manchu language, Altaic Languages, Tungusic linguistics, verbal morphology, Tungusic, Altaic Studies, Mongolic Studies, Altaic, Tungusic Languages, Evenki, The Manchu Language, Manchurica, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, and Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relationship
Research Interests: History of Linguistics, Philology, Languages, Modern Languages, History, and 128 moreCultural History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Anthropology, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Historical Anthropology, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Historical Morphology, Japanese Language And Culture, Japanese Linguistics, Linguistic Politeness, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Morphological evolution, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Studies, Korean Studies, English language, Critical Thinking, East Asia, Language Documentation, South-East Asia, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Ukrainian, Eurasian Nomads, Japanese, Applied Linguistics, East Asian Studies, Eurasia, Comparative Linguistics, Pan-Turanism, Corpus Linguistics, Morphology, Korean linguistics, Romani Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Asian Languages, Grammaticalization, Linguistics, Central Eurasian Studies, Language, Theoretical Linguistics, Altaic Linguistics, Pseudoscience, Vietnamese Language, Uralic Linguistics, Yeniseian Languages, Turkish Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Functional Grammar, Morphology (Languages And Linguistics), Indo-European Linguistics, Language Change, Korean, Turkish Language, Tungusic languages, Morphology and Syntax, Linguistic Typology, Lingüística, Grammaticalisation, Language contact, Descriptive Grammar, Lexical and Grammatical Borrowing, General linguistics, Altaistic, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Turkic Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistique, Areal linguistics, Linguistica, Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Korean language, Uralic languages, Chuvash language, Diachronic linguistics, Diachrony, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Foreign languages, Ket Language, Language Classification, Languages in Contact, Grammatical Evolution, Mongolian Languages, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı, Humanidades, Diachronic Typology, Pragmaticalization and Grammaticalization, Yakut, Linguistique Diachronique, Altaic Theory, Turkic languages, Language Families, Palaeosiberian linguistics, Insubordination, Yeniseian linguistics, Sakha (Yakutiia), Chuvash, Grammaticalization, diachronic linguistics, Altaic Languages, Tungusic linguistics, verbal morphology, Korean linguistics, Tungusic linguistics, Genealogic Classification of Languages, Tungusic, Anthropologie linguistique, Altaic Studies, Mongolic Studies, Altaic, Ket Linguistics, Tungusic Languages, Türk Dili Ve Edebiyatı, Verbalization, Palaeoasiatic Linguistics, Palaeoasiatic Languages, Sprachwandel, Sprachwissenschaft, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Tungusic Studies, Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relationship, and Grammatical morphemes
Research Interests: Languages, Sociology, Anthropology, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Humanities, and 73 moreLanguages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Balkan linguistics, Indo-european language reconstruction, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Sociolinguistics, Etymology, Albanian Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Comparative Linguistics, Language and Identity, Ethnography of Balkans, Linguistics, Language, Albanian Nationalism, Balkan prehistory, Medieval Balkans, Anthropology of the Balkans, Indo-European Linguistics, Proto Indo-European, Lingüística, Albania, Ancient Balkan Languages, Ancient Illyria, Balkans, Latin linguistics, Ancient Balkanic Languages, Language and Etymology, Ancient Illyricum, Western Balkans, Lenguaje, Linguistique, Albanian morphology, Balkanlar, Gjuhe Shqipe, Indo-European, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Latin etymology, Indo-European Etymology, Albanian language, Indo-European Languages, Proto-Indo-European reconstruction, Sciences du langage, Balkan Sprachbund, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Albanology, Sprachwissenschaft, Germanistik, Philosophie, Linguistics, Albanology, Albanology, Balkanology, Indo-European Linguistics, Albanologoy, Illyrians, Iliri, Albanian Linguistics, Indogermanistik, Albanian, Gjuha Shqipe, Lenguas, Sprachwissenschaft, Gjuhe Dhe Letersi Shqipe, Si Ndahet Gramatika E Gjuhës Shqipe, Illyrian History, Illyria, Gramatika e gjuhes shqipe, Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, زبان شناسی, Langue, Indo European Migrations, Indo European Problem, and Albanians
Research Interests: Languages, History, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), and 28 moreCommunication, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Georgian Language, Languages of the Caucasus, Caucasus, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Russian Studies (in Area Studies) and the Caucasus, Language, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Lingüística, South Caucasus, Diachronic Phonology, Kartvelian Languages, Svan language, Georgian Studies, Caucasian Languages, Mingrelian, Kaukasus, Kartvelian Linguistics, ქართული ენა, Megrelian Language, and Comparative Caucasian Linguistics
Research Interests: Languages, Systematics (Taxonomy), Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), and 22 moreCommunication, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), Taxonomy, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Language, Turkish Linguistics, Indo-European Linguistics, Lingüística, Proto-Nostratic, Classification, Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Nostratic, Foreign languages, Language Family Tree, Language Families, and Nostratic Theory
Co-authored with Uwe Seefloth
Research Interests: Languages, History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, and 125 moreCultural Studies, Psychology, Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies, Russian Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Communication, Indigenous Studies, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Digital Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Borrowing, Social Sciences, Ethnoarchaeology, Polar Studies, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Literature, Sociolinguistics, Etymology, Linguistic Anthropology, Arctic Social Science, American Indian History, Hungarian, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), Migration, Identity (Culture), East Asia, Central Asian Studies, Culture, Oral Traditions, Comparative Linguistics, Minority Studies, Ethnology, Morphosyntax, Morphology, Na-Dene languages, Dene-Yeniseic hypothesis, Language and Identity, Hungarian Studies, North American archaeology, Native American, Linguistics, Alaska Native Studies, Minority Languages, Migration History, Prehistoric Settlement, Language, American Indian & Alaska Native, Indigenous Peoples, Dené-Yeniseian Linguistics, Eskimo-Aleut Linguistics, Uralic Linguistics, Yeniseian Languages, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Arctic Anthropology, Morphology (Languages And Linguistics), First Nations of Canada, Finnish Language, Russia, Lingüística, Identity, Alaska Archaeology, Historia, Language contact, American Indian Studies, Arctic, Greenland, Inuit, Beringia, Palaeo-Eskimo, Uralic languages, Eskimo-Aleut (Siberian Yupik Eskimo), First Nations, History and Culture of Alaska Natives, Native Alaska Ethnology and Ethnohistory, Finno-Ugric Peoples, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Uralic, Yenisseian, Na-Dene, Uralic Etymology, Foreign languages, Native American Languages, Samoyedic languages, language contacts, Samoyedic languages, Amerindian languages, Amerindian linguistics, Tlingit, Eyak, Eskimos, History of Eskimo peoples, Eskimo-Aleut etymology, sociolinguistics, language contact, Eskimo-Aleut historical linguistics, diachronic typology, etymology, Eskimo-Aleut historical linguistics, Proto-Uralic, Eskimology, Kalaallisut, Basic Vocabulary, Palaeoasiatic Linguistics, Palaeoasiatic Languages, Sprachwandel, Sprachwissenschaft, Samoyedology, Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Na Dene, Eskimo Aleut, Eskimo, Turkic Philology, Chance Similarity, Aleut, Postcolonial Relations, Eymology, Anthropological Debates, Eskimo-Aleut Languages, and Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Mongolian translation (unauthorized, though) of some early paper.
Research Interests: Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Mongolian Studies, and 22 moreTaxonomy, Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Altaic Linguistics, Mongolian, Lingüística, Mongol, Altaic Studies, Altaic Linguistics, Mongolian Languages, языкознание, Altaic Theory, монгол хэл, Altaic Studies, Mongolic Studies, Comparative Linguistic Theory, Sprachwissenschaft, Монголия, монголоведение, Алтай, Turkic-Mongolic linguistic relationship, хэл, and Алтаистика
Research Interests: Languages, History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, and 104 moreCultural Studies, Social Demography, Ethnic Studies, Demography, Asian Studies, Russian Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Educational (Anthropological Linguistics), Ethnolinguistics, Historical Anthropology, Communication, Multiculturalism, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Language revitalization, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Social Sciences, Soviet History, Historical Demography, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Human Rights, Diversity, Russian, Linguistic Anthropology, Conservation, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), East Asia, Language Documentation, Endangered Languages, Eurasian Nomads, Culture, Comparative Linguistics, Minority Studies, Siberia, Multicultural Education, Ethnology, Linguistic diversity, Dene-Yeniseic hypothesis, Post-Soviet Studies, Ethnic minorities, Ethnography of Communication, Cognitive Linguistics, Russian History, Linguistics, Minority Languages, Language, Soviet Union (History), Indigenous Peoples, Language Endangerment, Dené-Yeniseian Linguistics, Uralic Linguistics, Yeniseian Languages, Cultural Diversity, Central Asia, Culture in the Soviet Union, Ethnicity, Nomadic Peoples, Minority Rights, Language Typology, Tungusic languages, Endangered languages/cultures, Language Planning, Language Maintenance and Shift, Linguistic Diversity (Languages And Linguistics), Russia, Lingüística, Genetic Diversity, Language contact, Language revitalisation and shift, Minorities, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Documentation, Indigenous Languages, Sociolinguistics, Field Linguistics, Demographics, Diachronic metaphor, Language Endangerment Discourse, Asia, Nomads, Siberian Studies, Uralic languages, Language Obsolescence, Comparative Uralic Linguistics, Ket Language, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Siberian Languages, Siberian Ethnography (Anthropology), Siberian Turkic languages, Critically Endangered, Endangered Languages and Cultures, Siberian linguistics, Turkic languages, Xiongnu, Palaeosiberian linguistics, Language Revitalization and Maintenance, Endangered Languages, Ket Linguistics, Documentation of endangered culture and language, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and New Dialects
"in: Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, N.F. 16, 1999/2000, 143-182 AT LAST a usable pdf of this old piece, thanks to indefatigable Uwe Bläsing, շնորհակալություն !!! Unfortunately written in German, but perhaps not altogether useless, since it... more
"in: Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, N.F. 16, 1999/2000, 143-182 AT LAST a usable pdf of this old piece, thanks to indefatigable Uwe Bläsing, շնորհակալություն !!!
Unfortunately written in German, but perhaps not altogether useless, since it shows how any enthusiasm for possibly disruptive hypotheses (as, in this case, the thought that Turkic, Mongolian and Tungus languages might somehow be genetically related) could profit immensely from, at least some, knowledge of or about the languages involved, and how any lack of this leads to disaster, and inevitably so.
One of the authors attacked in this piece later changed his mind, perhaps not (only) because of this, but anyway commendably so, whereas the other one never reacted and offered, 20 years later, an explanation which tact dictates to accept and good manners dictate not to cite, but apart from that he hastened to add (here on academia.edu) that everything which is wrong in the original joint paper wasn't his fault, but somebody else's.
Apart from this, I find it, in a personal blog of this author, repeatedly alluded to, at one place even praised (if only its title...), but generally misunderstodd and even miscited. How the rather innocent opening paragraph with its clear statements that it is *not* viewed as an "anti-Altaic" statement avant la parole, can be refabricated to constitute such a statement (which it ostensibly is not), transcends my abilities of comprehension, especially since its originator claims (and says!) that he knows German by far better than I do.
Recently he mentioned that I managed to correct some very minor issues of his original contribution.
It very obviously hit where it hurts.
Sapienti sat.
Unfortunately written in German, but perhaps not altogether useless, since it shows how any enthusiasm for possibly disruptive hypotheses (as, in this case, the thought that Turkic, Mongolian and Tungus languages might somehow be genetically related) could profit immensely from, at least some, knowledge of or about the languages involved, and how any lack of this leads to disaster, and inevitably so.
One of the authors attacked in this piece later changed his mind, perhaps not (only) because of this, but anyway commendably so, whereas the other one never reacted and offered, 20 years later, an explanation which tact dictates to accept and good manners dictate not to cite, but apart from that he hastened to add (here on academia.edu) that everything which is wrong in the original joint paper wasn't his fault, but somebody else's.
Apart from this, I find it, in a personal blog of this author, repeatedly alluded to, at one place even praised (if only its title...), but generally misunderstodd and even miscited. How the rather innocent opening paragraph with its clear statements that it is *not* viewed as an "anti-Altaic" statement avant la parole, can be refabricated to constitute such a statement (which it ostensibly is not), transcends my abilities of comprehension, especially since its originator claims (and says!) that he knows German by far better than I do.
Recently he mentioned that I managed to correct some very minor issues of his original contribution.
It very obviously hit where it hurts.
Sapienti sat.
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With my profuse apologies to everybody who rightfully expects original works of scholarship here, but certain events on some pages of academia.edu force me, so I think, to post this statement at this place. - As an addition, I might... more
With my profuse apologies to everybody who rightfully expects original works of scholarship here, but certain events on some pages of academia.edu force me, so I think, to post this statement at this place.
- As an addition, I might mention here that I find myself, on some page of academia.edu, which, again, I will not mention explicitly here (sapienti sat), actually *stalked* by somebody who, in the defense of some hypothesis I took the liberty to voice dissident opinions on in the past, now seems to have enough time and energy to scavenge each and every scrap of my published writings, sometimes from decades ago, and sometimes without any circulation to speak of, in order to unearth inaccuracies of any kind (and, yes, indeed, the undersigned is not infallible, so the search will and is not in vain, I am confident that I'm in pretty good company with that), which are then presented as "pinnacles" of a debate and, of course, then reduced to rubbles with bombastic rhetoric. At times, this is even funny (for lovers of grand opera and kitschy drama, that is), but it should perhaps be added that *any* hypothesis on *anything* which needs to be defended *this way* is in dire straits, and very obviously so.
Whether what I attacked some decades ago will stand or fall is not up to me to decide and should be left to those who actually care, but I must say that I'm quite astonished to find that the supporters (OK, to be fair: at least one of them, I have not found many others from the "other camp" to be willing to sink that low) of that ominous hypothesis seem to feel that it needs *such a* shot in the arm. Not even I thought that it is in such a precarious state of health, maybe somebody should help it up, so I might, one day, find time, energy and, above all, inclination, to voice a few more dissident opinions on it.
- As an addition, I might mention here that I find myself, on some page of academia.edu, which, again, I will not mention explicitly here (sapienti sat), actually *stalked* by somebody who, in the defense of some hypothesis I took the liberty to voice dissident opinions on in the past, now seems to have enough time and energy to scavenge each and every scrap of my published writings, sometimes from decades ago, and sometimes without any circulation to speak of, in order to unearth inaccuracies of any kind (and, yes, indeed, the undersigned is not infallible, so the search will and is not in vain, I am confident that I'm in pretty good company with that), which are then presented as "pinnacles" of a debate and, of course, then reduced to rubbles with bombastic rhetoric. At times, this is even funny (for lovers of grand opera and kitschy drama, that is), but it should perhaps be added that *any* hypothesis on *anything* which needs to be defended *this way* is in dire straits, and very obviously so.
Whether what I attacked some decades ago will stand or fall is not up to me to decide and should be left to those who actually care, but I must say that I'm quite astonished to find that the supporters (OK, to be fair: at least one of them, I have not found many others from the "other camp" to be willing to sink that low) of that ominous hypothesis seem to feel that it needs *such a* shot in the arm. Not even I thought that it is in such a precarious state of health, maybe somebody should help it up, so I might, one day, find time, energy and, above all, inclination, to voice a few more dissident opinions on it.