Merritt Ruhlen (May 10, 1944 – January 29, 2021) was an American linguist who worked on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin and evolution of modern humans. Amongst other linguists,[citation needed] Ruhlen's work was recognized as standing outside the mainstream of comparative-historical linguistics. He was the principal advocate and defender of Joseph Greenberg's approach to language classification.
MerrittRuhlen (May 10, 1944 – January 29, 2021) was an American linguist who worked on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the...
proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student MerrittRuhlen. Greenberg proposed that all of the indigenous languages of the Americas...
similar grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg (2000) and endorsed by MerrittRuhlen. The last quarter of the 19th century saw various linguists putting...
Starostin, Sergei A., and MerrittRuhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
Starostin, Sergei A., and MerrittRuhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
that Kusunda was a Tibeto-Burman language as traditionally classified. MerrittRuhlen argued for a relationship with Juwoi and other Andamanese languages;...
not only the Tsetsaut but some Tahltan and Sekani. The examples by MerrittRuhlen: Boas, Franz, and Pliny Earle Goddard (1924) "Ts'ets'aut, an Athapascan...
Retrieved 2009-10-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) MerrittRuhlen: Is Algonquian Amerind? Bradshaw, Paul F., The Search for the Origins...
who have lived their whole life in Tunisia, TVM, 13 November 2017. MerrittRuhlen. 1991. A Guide to the World's Languages, Volume 1: Classification. Stanford...
and until he died during May 2001. His colleague and former student MerrittRuhlen ensured the publication of the final volume of his Eurasiatic work (2002)...
possible Caucasian link, some linguists, for example John Bengtson and MerrittRuhlen, have proposed including Basque in the Dené–Caucasian superfamily of...
groups, based on the observation of linguistic substrates. According to MerrittRuhlen (1994), "African Pygmies speak languages belonging to either the Nilo-Saharan...
Starostin, Sergei A., and MerrittRuhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
Starostin, Sergei A., and MerrittRuhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
languages, which has been met with some degree of acceptance. In 1994 MerrittRuhlen claimed Eurasiatic is supported by the existence of a grammatical pattern...
Starostin, Sergei A., and MerrittRuhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
(2012). "Ugrisch und Penuti". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. 61: 92–109. MerrittRuhlen (November 1998). "Anthropology : The origin of the Na-Dene". Proc. Natl...
and Challenges. Multilingual Matters. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-84769-837-7. MerrittRuhlen (1991). A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification. Stanford University...
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