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Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 1995. — 244 p. Basque and Dene-Caucasian: A Critique from the Basque Side - R. L. Trask Discussants: Paul K. Benedict, John D. Bengtson, Vaclav Blazek, Eric de Grolier, Jose Ignacio Hualde, William H. Jacobsen, Jr., Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Merritt Ruhlen, Vitalij Shevoroshkin, Etienne Tiffou, Roger W. Wescott,...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 1996. — 156 p. The Nihali Language Special Topic: The Nihali Language Who are the Nihals? What Do They Speak? - Asha Mundlay Cognates in the Nihali Lexicon - Asha Mundlay Nihali Lexicon - Asha Mundlay Nihali Lexicon: Supplement I, Words Collected by Bhattacharya and Konow Nihali Lexicon: Supplement II, Nihali...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 1997. — 249 p. Special Topic I: Nihali and Kusunda Paul Whitehouse - External Relations of Nihali and Kusunda Roger Williams Wescott - Nihali Phonemes John D.Bengtson - Some Comments on Ilia Peiros' "Nihali and Austroasiatic" Harold C. Fleming - Call it Methodology. Special Topic II: Sumerian Igor M. Diakonoff...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 1998. — 158 p. Introduction: The Editors Guide to Deep Classifications The Yeniseian Languages The Kets and Their Language - Edward J. Vajda Reconstructing Proto-Yeniseian - Heinrich Werner Some Yeniseian Isoglosses - John D. Bengtson The Ainu Language The External Relations of Ainu: Problems and Prospects -...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 1999. — 184 p. The Austric Languages The Austric Denti-Alveolar Sibilants - La Vaughn H. Hayes Comments by Discussants - Vaclav Blazek, Robert Blust, George van Driem, Harold C. Fleming Responses to Discussants - LaVaughn H. Hayes The Basque Language: Part II A Comparison of Basque and (North) Caucasian Basic...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2000-01. — 190 p. Festschrift for Roger W. Wescott: Paleolinguistics: The State of the Art and Science Introduction - John D. Bengtson Historical Overview - Gyula Decsy Paleolinguistics in Denmark - W. Wilfried Schuhmacher Paleolinguistics: Its Definition and Scope - Iren Hegedus Problems of Methodology in...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2002. — 278 p. In Honor of Joseph H. Greenberg Table: Taxonomic Proposals - Joseph H. Greenberg Studies in Linguistic Classification Shabo: A New African Phylum or a Special Relic of Old Nilo-Saharan? - Harold C. Fleming Ongota Lexicon: English-Ongota - Harold C. Fleming The Origin of the Tasmanian Languages -...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2003. — 134 p. Main Articles Inclusion Versus Exclusion: The Problem of Negative Evidence - Paul Whitehouse Lexica Nostratica Addenda - Vaclav Blazek Notes on Basque Comparative Phonology - John D. Bengtson Salishan and North Caucasian - Vitaly Shevoroshkin Toward Reconstructing Proto-South Khoisan (PSAK) -...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2004. — 231 p. Language in Australia Background Information on Australian Languages. Pama-Nyungan under Unjustified Attack - Geoff O’Grady Comment on O’Grady’s Paper - Paul Whitehouse Rebuttal - Geoff O’Grady Kinship terminology re-enters Prehistory The Global Distribution of (P)APA and (T)ATA and Their...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2005. — 173 p. Prehistory in its Physical Aspects The Wee Fossil Folk of Sundaland: The Mystery Unfolds The Great Archeological Debate on Human Origins Out of Africa: Crossing the Bab el Mandeb as Early as 125,000 BP Fossil Homo sapiens in Ethiopia circa 195,000 BP Report on a possible pre-Clovis site in...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2006. — 301 p. Meetings held at Harvard University,October 21-22, 2006, entitled “Asian Remnant Languages and the Year of the Australoid ”, Joint sponsorship: Harvard University and ASLIP (Association for the Study of Language In Prehistory) General Logic and Themes of the Conference - Harold C. Fleming Periods...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2007. — 250 p. In Honor and Celebration of Harold C. Fleming OCTOGINTA ANNOS NATVS XXIII DECEMBER MMVI Pronunciation Puzzles - Jean Lydall “Rhetoric Culture Theory”: Account of a Title Search - Ivo Strecker Autobiography of a Lucky Man Nostratic Phonology: A Discussion The Glottalic Theory of...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2008. — 282 p. In Commemoration of the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, university of Michigan, Ann Arbor. November 8-12, 1988. Roots of a Fallacy - Harold C. Fleming The myth of rapid linguistic change (debunked by the Romance languages) - Jonathan Morris Introduction...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2009. — 222 p. In Commemoration of Daniel F. McCall Discussion of Berber *H - What does the Berber proto-phoneme *H stand for? - Arnaud Fournet - Comments on Fournet’s article - Vaclav Blazek, Maarten Kossmann, Karl-G. Prasse - Response to Discussants - Arnaud Fournet The myth of rapid linguistic change: Part...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2010. — 172 p. Articles: Fifteenth Anniversary Issue 1995-2010 From Africa and back: some areal patterns of mythological motifs - Yuri E. Berezkin The Mesolithic Distillation of Pitch and its Ethnolinguistic Reflections: A Holocene Etymology for an Italian Verb - Francesco Benozzo The myth of rapid linguistic...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2011. — 214 p. Reflections on Archaeology and Genetics: Selected Discoveries 2011 - James B. Harrod Some Connections of Indo-European On the question of the relationship of Indo-European and Ugrofinnic Holger Pedersen (1933) Translated by Nicholas Davidson The Chinese primordial giant Pangu and his possible...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2012. — 175 p. In Memory of Aharon Dolgopolsky Aharon Dolgopolsky: The Semito-Hamitic Scholar and Man - Gabor Takacs Aharon Dolgopolsky - Life and Work - Vaclav Blazek Already Out-of-Africa before Out-of-Africa? Annual Reflection on Archaeology and Genetics - James B. Harrod Puluga: The Most Widespread Name of...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2013. — 241 p. Articles: Joseph H. Greenberg and His Legacy Move along, there’s nothing to see here: How the SLP ban was pronounced - Pierre J. Bancel The Niger-Congo Hypothesis and Its Perspectives in the 21st Century - Kirill Babaev Joseph Harold Greenberg: A Tribute and an Appraisal - Harold C. Fleming Why...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2014. — 237 p. The 200,000-Year Evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens Language and Myth Families based on mtDNA Phylotree Archaeogenetics: A Thought Experiment - James B. Harrod The Kinship Term Kuku ~ Koko ~ Kaka in the American Indigenous Languages, the Amerind Hypothesis, and the Dravidian Kinship System Section...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2015. — 281 p. In Memory of Harold Crane Fleming (1926-2015) Ode to Our "Randy" Ancestors: An essay in honor of Hal Fleming - Stephen L. Zegura Archaeologia Afroasiatica I: Disintegration of the parental language - Gabor Takacs The limited evidence of shared innovations in East Cushitic - Paul Black Cushitic...

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, 2016. — 173 p. Discussion: Languages of the Northern Caucasus From North to North West: How North-West Caucasian Evolved from North Caucasian - Viacheslav A. Chirikba Comments on Chirikba's "From North to North West" - Vaclav Blazek Remarks on V. A. Chirikba, "From North to North West" - John Colarusso Comments...