Starostin at the conference in memory of V. M. Illich-Svitych on October 21–23, 2004
Born
(1953-03-24)March 24, 1953
Moscow, Russian SFSR
Died
September 30, 2005(2005-09-30) (aged 52)
Moscow, Russia
Children
Georgiy Starostin
Academic background
Influences
Aharon Dolgopolsky, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Andrey Zaliznyak, Vladimir Dybo, Sergei Yakhontov
Academic work
School or tradition
Moscow school, historical linguistics
Main interests
Long-range language reconstruction (especially Nostratic and Dené–Caucasian), glottochronology, accentology (especially Indo-European)
Notable ideas
Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, reconstruction of Proto-Altaic, Proto-North-Caucasian, Proto-Yeniseian, Proto-Tibeto-Burman, Proto-Kiranti, reconstruction of Old Chinese and Proto-Japanese, advancement of "recalibrated glottochronology"
Influenced
Merritt Ruhlen, John Bengtson
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005)[1] was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date. None of his proposed macrofamilies have seen wide-scale acceptance in the linguistic community (and are mostly seen as implausible), though his proposals remain influential outside of academia. He was also the author of a widely respected reconstruction of Old Chinese.[citation needed]
^"The Tower of Babel". Starling.rinet.ru. 2005-09-30. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist...
distinct models of Borean exist: that of Harold C. Fleming and that of SergeiStarostin. The concept is due to Harold C. Fleming (1987), who proposed such...
Starostin (Russian: Ста́ростин) may refer to: Pavel Starostin (born 1955), Estonian politician SergeiStarostin (1953-2005), Russian linguistics researcher...
classified as an independent language family. Some linguists, notably SergeiStarostin and Sergei Nikolaev, believe that the two groups sprang from a common ancestor...
the hypothetical Altaic language family. It was written by linguists SergeiStarostin, Anna Dybo, and Oleg Mudrak [ru], and was published in Leiden in 2003...
"George" Starostin (Russian: Гео́ргий Серге́евич Ста́ростин; born 4 July 1976) is a Russian linguist. He is the son of the late historical linguist Sergei Starostin...
Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean. George Starostin (A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008). SergeiStarostin (1991, S. Starostin et al. 2003). John C. Street (1962)...
introduce such modifications was performed by the Russian linguist SergeiStarostin, who had proposed the following: Systematic loanwords, borrowed from...
notably Afroasiatic. At about this time Russian Nostraticists, notably SergeiStarostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic which was slightly broader...
Foundation. It is currently led by Russian linguist Georgiy Starostin, the son of SergeiStarostin. Many of the project's members belong to the Moscow School...
formerly spoken in Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. Linguists such as SergeiStarostin see the Northeast (Nakh-Dagestanian) and Northwest (Abkhaz–Adyghe)...
Lehmann (1984:35f), D. Ringe (1992, passim, different versions), SergeiStarostin (1984, passim, different versions), William S-Y. Wang (1994), M. Lohr...
linguist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and co-author (with SergeiStarostin) of the Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages (2003), which...
Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences], 19–38. [see Starostin 1991] Starostin, Sergei A. (1991). On the Hypothesis of a Genetic Connection Between...
2015. Proto-East Sudanic ʽtreeʼ on the East Sudanic tree. 10th Annual Conference on Comparative-Historical Linguistics (in memory of SergeiStarostin)....
in all reconstructions up to the 1980s, when Zhengzhang Shangfang, SergeiStarostin and William Baxter independently proposed a more radical splitting...
neighbours). This hypothesis has perhaps been best illustrated by Sergei A. Starostin and Sergei Nikolayev, who present a set of phonological correspondences...
William Baxter (building on a proposal by Nicholas Bodman) and by SergeiStarostin. In 1980, he joined the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "Decipherment...
originally developed by SergeiStarostin. After SergeiStarostin's death in 2005, the website has since been run by his son Georgiy Starostin. In 2011, the Global...
scholars like William George Aston, Shōsaburō Kanazawa, Samuel Martin and SergeiStarostin, are sometimes included as part of the purported Altaic family. This...
Comparative Linguistics, most notably Vladislav Illich-Svitych and SergeiStarostin. In the United States, Greenberg's and Ruhlen's work has been met with...
excluding Afroasiatic. At about this time, Russian Nostraticists, notably SergeiStarostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic. It was slightly larger...
question of Yeniseian homeland in perspective of toponymy. 14th Annual SergeiStarostin Memorial Conference on Comparative-Historical Linguistics. Moscow:...
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