Aharon Dolgopolsky
Had † July 20, 2012 in Haifa, Israel) was a born, later living in Russia in Israel linguist, the decisive role in the development of the nostra matic macro family; Aharon Dolgopolsky (Russian Арон Борисович Долгопольский ;) ( born November 18, 1930 in Moscow.
Life and effect
Dolgopolsky worked as a Member of the Institute of Linguistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, his area of research the comparative linguistics.
In the early 1960s he began - at the same time but independently of Vladislav Illitsch - Switytsch - the study of lexical and grammatical similarities in different language families of Eurasia and Africa. This Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Kartwelische, Uralic and Altaic were used for comparison. Dolgopolsky and Illitsch - Switytsch came to the conclusion that these language families are genetically related to each other and have to go back to a common ancestor, they called on the basis of a coinage Holger Pedersen from the early 20th century " Nostra table ". Dolgopolsky and Illitsch - Switytsch led the first a broad comparison of the proto- languages of the daughter of Nostra families through tables, established a number of word equations and presented sound laws for this macro family.
Eight years taught Dolgopolsky nostra tables Linguistics at the University of Moscow and trained there a number of well-known Russian linguists from around the world today, including Sergei Starostin, the founder of the Dene - Caucasian, another Eurasian macro family. However, unlike Starostin he rejects the glottochronology decisively. 1976 left Dolgopolsky Russia, was an Israeli citizen and professor of linguistics at the University of Haifa.
His nostra tables hypothesis found a total of only the approval of a minority of relevant researchers. Something similar happened to Joseph Greenberg with its competing model, the Eurasian macro family, but not the huge group of Afro-Asiatic languages with einbeschließt. Dolgopolsky has now become the Greenberg 's approach in content (but not methodically ) approximated by seeing the Afro-Asiatic rather than a parallel branch to the ( remaining ) Nostra tables, and no more than a subset of the tables Nostra.
Works
A concise summary of the Nostra tables presents his work, The Nostratic macro Family and Linguistic Palaeontology is from 1998, in which he puts together not only 124 detailed tables described nostra word equations, but also excludes from the linguistic similarities to the culture of their carrier. The following titles Dolgopolskys have appeared in English: