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Subject(s)

• Anthropological linguistics [Browse]
• Historical linguistics [Browse]
• Metaphor [Browse]
• Myth [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-365) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
• 1. Reworking Early Glottochronologies
• 2. The People of the Ankh: Deciphering Tribal Names
• 3. Tanith: Patron Saint of Carthaginian Sailors
• 4. Amerindian Origins: The Classification of Amerind
• 5. North American Indian Tribal Names
• 6. The Petroglyphs at Tule Lake: An Exercise in Archaeo-Semiotics
• 7. The Shaman Motif in the Great Basin. A. Petrographic Techniques and Styles of the Fremont and Anasazi Cultures. B. The Shaman Motif and the Kokopelli Figure
• 8. Kings of Canaan: The Role of Metaphor in Language Development
• 9. The Historical and Linguistic Background of Nostratics
• 10. Genetics: The Struggle for Supremacy in the Field of Language Reconstruction
• 11. The Indo-Europeans: Who Were They and Where Did They Come From?
• 12. The Scytho-Semites
• 13. Consonant Transformations: Beyond Grimm's Kreislauftheorie
• 14. Appendix. I. Abraxas etait-il (aussi) le Dieu Guerrier des Mayas?
• II. Mithras und Perseus: Ein Beitrag zu dem Werke Prof. Dres. Heinsohns. III. The Method of Compiling Linguistic Proof. IV. List of Proto-Nostratic Meanings. V. Correlation by Meaning and Sound: Minimal Pairs. Table of Correspondences. VI. Correspondences in Proto-Nostratic. VII. Allophones. Constructing a Matrix. Graphic Matrix: Allophones. VIII. Consonant Transformations. Number Matrix: Correspondences. Number Matrix: Allophones. IX. Prof. Fell's Transformations
• 15. Bibliography
• 16. Index.

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ISBN

0773495347

LCCN

92010148

OCLC

25675951

RCP

C - O

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