Vladislav Illich-Svitych

Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (Russian: Владислав Маркович Иллич-Свитыч; 1934-1966) was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics.

Of Ukrainian descent, he was born in Kiev but later moved to work in Moscow. He resuscitated the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis, originally expounded by Holger Pedersen in 1903, and coined the modern term "Nostratics". His untimely death prevented him from completing the "Comparative Dictionary of Nostratic Languages", but the ambitious work was continued by his colleagues, including Sergei Starostin and Vladimir Dybo.

References

* Merritt Ruhlen: "On the Origin of Languages. Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy." Stanford University Press 1994.
*Sydney M. Lamb and E. Douglas Mitchell (Hrsg.): "Sprung from Some Common Source. Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages." Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.) 1991.
* Vitaly Shevoroshkin: "Reconstructing Languages and Cultures. Abstracts and Materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory." Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989.
* Bomhard, Allan R. and John C. Kerns: "The Nostratic Macrofamily. A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship". Mouton De Gruyter. Berlin - New York 1994.
* Dolgopolsky, Aharon: "The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology." The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Oxford 1998.
* Holger Pedersen: "Türkische Lautgesetze." ZDMG 57, 1903.
* Holger Pedersen: "Linguistic Science in the Nienteenth Century: Methods and Results." Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1931.

ee also

* Illič-Svityč's law

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/6623/nostraticist.htm Example of Illich-Svitych's Nostratic reconstruction]