%0 Journal Article
%T Zur Rekonstruktion des Proto-Nostratischen oder: wie man eine anti-omnicomparatistische Kampfschrift verfaßt
%A Knüppel, Michael
%J Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
%V 2015
%R 10.4467/20843836SE.15.019.2805
%N Volume 20, Issue 4
%P 285-295
%K etymology, omnicomparativism, Proto-Nostratic, reconstruction, methology
%@ 1427-8219
%D 2015
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/zur-rekonstruktion-des-proto-nostratischen-oder-wie-man-eine-anti-omnicomparatistische-kampfschrift-verfasst
%X 
	 (On reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, or: How to write an anti-omnicomparatistic polemic). The following article deals with A. R. Bomhard’s latest attempts to reconstruct “Proto-Nostratic” (which forms a synthesis of Nostratic proto-language as proposed by the Nostraticists of the “Moscow Nostratic school” and J. H. Greenberg’s “Eurasiatic”) in a somehow ironical way. Bomhard claims to have reconstructed the phonology as well as the vocabulary and morphology of this supposed macro-family in his bulky two-volume-work. The reviewer criticizes this especially the methodological weakness of these attempts.