MOTHER TONGUE
Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in PrehistoryIssue III, December 1997
CONTENTS
1 Talcott Parsons Prize
3 Special Topic I: Nihali and Kusunda
4 External Relations of Nihali and Kusunda: Paul Whitehouse
45 Nihali Phonemes: Roger Williams Wescott
47 Some Comments on Ilia Perrosí 'Nihali and Austroasiatic': John D. Bengtson
51 Call It Methodology: Harold C. Fleming
53 Special Topic II: Sumerian
54 External Connections of the Sumerian Language: Igor M. Diakonoff
63 The Riddle of Sumerian: A Dene-Caucasic Language? John D. Bengtson
75 On the Origin of Sumerian: Allan R. Bomhard
93 Miscellanea
93 Recommendations for Long Rangers: Paul K. Benedict
95 An Editorial for Mother Tongue III: Roger Williams Wescott
99 Long Ranger Extraordinaire--Sergei A. Starostin: John D. Bengtson
103 Some Recent Publications of Interest to Long Rangers: John D. Bengtson
108 Hardware Symposium: Discussing the Origin of Language
109 Stephen L. Zegura: Review of Philip Lieberman's EVE SPOKE
113 Philip Lieberman: The Fossil Record, Tools, and Language
114 Philip Lieberman: The Chomskian Position: A Critique
118 Philip Lieberman: The planum temporale doesn't have any apparent role in language
119 Merlin Donald: Language Evolution and Evolutionary Continuity
123 W. Tecumseh Fitch: Innate Mechanisms and the Evolution of Language
135 Terrence Deacon: Recent Compass Points in the Evolution of Language Debate
145 Book Review Articles
145 Ken Hale: On Campbell's AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES...
159 Vaclav Blazhek: On Ruhlen's GUIDE...
184 Sergei A. Starostin: On Chirikba's COMMON WEST CAUCASIAN...