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...
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consideration (e.g. Bengtson and Ruhlen). The terms proto-world and proto-human are in occasional use. Merritt Ruhlen used the term proto-sapiens. The...
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proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen. Greenberg proposed that all of the indigenous languages of the Americas...
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similar grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg (2000) and endorsed by Merritt Ruhlen. The last quarter of the 19th century saw various linguists putting...
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the Americas. Contemporary supporters of Greenberg's theory, such as Merritt Ruhlen, have suggested that the Na-Dené language family represents a distinct...
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Merritt Ruhlen (born 1944), American linguist Merritt Roe Smith (born 1940), American historian Merritt Starkweather (1891–1972), architect Merritt Wever...
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linguaggio, published in 1905. More recently, Joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen, proponents of monogenesis, argue that in modern languages there is...
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Starostin, Sergei A., and Merritt Ruhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
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distinct Dené–Yeniseian family was written by the macrofamily supporter Merritt Ruhlen (1998) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States...
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Starostin, Sergei A., and Merritt Ruhlen. (1994). Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages:...
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