proto-world

In case anyone was confused, my blog isn't a mouthpiece for proto-world rhetoric and I'm an ardent defender of mainstream linguistics despite my moderate interest in long-range linguistics.

How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage 2007

Pennock invokes these controversial theories for two reasons: to bolster Darwinian theory by citing the work of Cavalli-Sforza, who uses elements of the proto-world hypothesis as a guide to human evolution, and to argue that creationism is incompatible with modern linguistics.

Tower of Bull Kylopod 2006

Pennock invokes these controversial theories for two reasons: to bolster Darwinian theory by citing the work of Cavalli-Sforza, who uses elements of the proto-world hypothesis as a guide to human evolution, and to argue that creationism is incompatible with modern linguistics.

Archive 2006-08-01 Kylopod 2006

A more serious problem comes with his discussion of the proto-world hypothesis, the attempt by some linguists to reconstruct a hypothetical "first language" from which all modern languages are descended.

Archive 2006-08-01 Kylopod 2006

A more serious problem comes with his discussion of the proto-world hypothesis, the attempt by some linguists to reconstruct a hypothetical "first language" from which all modern languages are descended.

Tower of Bull Kylopod 2006

Though I certainly incline to the wishful thinking tag, Nostratic and the whole proto-world discussion are really interesting for thinking about what the nature of evidence is for historical linguistics.

languagehat.com: LINGUISTICS ON NOVA. 2004

Nowadays it's obviously seen as a product of the late-sixties counterculture movement's interest in all things cultural; an album made by four Germans but one that sounds distinctly non-Western with the more modern influences tucked deeply away inside the layers of proto-world music and psychedelic folk.

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