MOTHER TONGUE
Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in PrehistoryIssue II, December 1996
CONTENTS
1 Introduction: John D. Bengtson
The Nihali Language
2 Special Topic: The Nihali Language
5 Who Are the Nihals? What Do They Speak? Asha Mundlay
11 Cognates in the Nihali Lexicon: Asha Mundlay
17 Nihali Lexicon: Asha Mundlay
41 Nihali Lexicon Supplement I: Words Collected by Bhattacharya and Konow
45 Nihali Lexicon Supplement II: Nihali Numerals
46 Nihali Lexicon Supplement III: Dental and Retroflex Variants
The Nihali Language: Discussants
49 Much Ado About Nothing: Paul K. Benedict
51 Nihali and Ainu: John D. Bengtson
57 Seeking and Relatives of Nihali: Vaclav Blazek
61 Nihali and Nostratic: Aaron B. Dolgopolsky
67 Looking to the West and North: Nihali and Kusunda Find Links: Harold C. Fleming
75 Nihali and Austroasiatic: Ilia Peiros
91 Some Remarks on John Bengtsonís Comparison of Ainu and Nihali: Alexander Vovin
93 On Nihali: Norman Zide
Debate and Discussion: Basque and Dene-Caucasic
101 Comments on the Basque-Dene-Caucasian Comparisons: Sergei A. Starostin
111 Response to Starostin: R. L. Trask
119 Response to Trask: Sergei A. Starostin
125 Second Response to Starostin: R. L. Trask
131 Response of Larry Trask to Merritt Ruhlen
137 Letter from Merritt Ruhlen to Larry Trask
Miscellanea
141 Editorial: Comments on Sergei Nikolaevís Letter to Harold C. Fleming (2 September 1995 in Mother Tongue Newsletter 26: 19-22): John D. Bengtson
145 The Genesis of Multilaterial Comparision: Joseph H. Greenberg
149 References for Mother Tongue II