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1. Introduction
2. Sir William Jones - picture
3. Sir William Jones, 1786
4. An Indo-European paradigm
5. The Indo-Hittite family (1)
6. The Indo-Hittite family (2)
7. The word "hand" in different languages
8. A more complex example
9. Possible explanations for linguistic similarities
10. Classifying languges by basic vocabulary (1)
11. Classifying languges by basic vocabulary (2)
12. The Indo-Hittite family (3)
13. Italian linquist - Alfredo Trombetti
14. Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (1)
15. Distribution of the pronouns M 'I' - T 'you'
16. The Eurasiatic family
17. The Uralic-Yukaghir family
18. The Altaic family
19. The Eskimo-Aleut family
20. Eurasiatic grammatical cognates
21. Eurasiatic lexical cognates
22. African language families
23. The Afro-Asiatic family
24. The Nilo-Saharan family
25. The Niger-Kordofanian family
26. The Khoisan family
27. The Dene-Caucasian family
28. Alfredo Trombetti in 1923 and 1925
29. Dene-Caucasian cognates
30. The Na-Dene family
31. Yeniseian-Na-Dene cognates
32. Language in the Americas
33. Language families in the Americas
34. Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (2)
35. Distribution of the pronouns N 'I' - M 'you'
36. Ameren T'ana-T'ina-T'una ('child-son-daughter')
37. Ameren T'ina ('brother, son')
38. Ameren T'una ('sister, daughter')
39. Ameren T'ana ('child, sibling')
40. The Kartvelian family
41. The Dravidian family
42. The Austric family
43. The Indo-Pacific family
44. The Australian family
45. Language families of the world
46. Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (3)
47. Tik ('finger, one')
48. Tik ('finger, one') - geographic distribution
49. Pal ('two')
50. Pal ('two') - geographic distribution
51. Akwa ('water')
52. Akwa ('water') - geographic distribution
53. Genetic linguistics versus typology
54. The six possible word orders
55. Subject-object-verb
56. Distribution of word order in Indo-Hittite
57. Distribution of word order in Afro-Asiatic
58. Evolution of word order - simple model
59. Evolution of word order - more complex model
60. Evolution of word order - full model
61. The out-of-Africa migration, 50,000 BP
62. The migration to the Americas, 13,500 BP
63. The Ameren migration
64. Final remarks - Charles Darwin (1859)

Topics Covered

• Discovery of comparative linguistics
• The Indo-Hittite family
• Fundamentals of linguistic taxonomy
• Alfredo Trombetti
• The Eurasiatic language family
• African language families
• The Dene-Caucasian family
• The Amerind language family
• Monogenesis
• Origin and evolution of word order
• Linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence for human migrations

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Series:

• Human Population Genetics I

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on August 13, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Merritt Ruhlen has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.