Allan R. Bomhard
Encyclopedia
Allan R. Bomhard is an American
linguist
.
He was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University
, Hunter College
, and the City University of New York
, and served in the U.S. Army from 1964—1966. He currently resides in Charleston, SC
. He has studied the controversial hypotheses about the underlying unity among the proposed Nostratic
and Eurasiatic
language families. He has published over sixty articles and eight books on comparative-historical linguistics, as well as a number of books/booklets on Buddhism
(see below).
United States
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linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
.
He was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...
, Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, and the City University of New York
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
, and served in the U.S. Army from 1964—1966. He currently resides in Charleston, SC
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
. He has studied the controversial hypotheses about the underlying unity among the proposed Nostratic
Nostratic languages
Nostratic is a proposed language family that includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, including the Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic as well as Kartvelian languages...
and Eurasiatic
Eurasiatic languages
Eurasiatic is a language macrofamily proposed by Joseph Greenberg that includes many language families historically spoken in northern Eurasia. The eight branches of Eurasiatic are Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic–Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Gilyak, Chukotian, and Eskimo–Aleut, spoken in...
language families. He has published over sixty articles and eight books on comparative-historical linguistics, as well as a number of books/booklets on Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
(see below).
Books
- Allan R. Bomhard
- 1984: Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 27.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 356 pp.
- 1996: Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis. Charleston, SC: SIGNUM Desktop Publishing. 265 pp.
- 2008: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic: Comparative Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary. Leiden and Boston, MA: E. J. Brill. 2 vols. 1,820 pp.
- 2011: The Nostratic Hypothesis in 2011: Trends and Issues. (= JIES Monograph Series, no. 59.) Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man. 341 pp.
- Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard (eds.)
- 1981: Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 16, parts I and II.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1,076 pp.
- Allan R. Bomhard and John C. Kerns
- 1994: The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship. Berlin, New York, NY, and Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. 932 pp.
- J. Peter Maher, Allan R. Bomhard, and Konrad Koerner (eds.)
- 1982: Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 13.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 434 pp.
- Arnaud Fournet and Allan R. Bomhard
- 2010: The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian. Published on-line at http://www.nostratic.net.
- The Russian scholar Alexei Kassian published a review of this work in Journal of Language Relationship, issue 4 (2010), pp. 199-206.
- 2010: The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian. Published on-line at http://www.nostratic.net.
Nonlinguistic publications
- Allan R. Bomhard
- 2002: The Essential Teachings of BuddhismBuddhismBuddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
. Booklet compiled from various sources by Allan R. Bomhard. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. The main part of this booklet is based upon a radio lecture given in Colombo, Śri Lanka, in 1933 by Nyanatiloka Mahāthera (1878—1957) entitled “The Essence of Buddhism” and published by the Buddhist Publication Society as part of Fundamentals of Buddhism: Four Lectures (Wheel Publication no. 394/396 [1994]), pp. 1—13. The current version has been thoroughly revised, rearranged, and greatly expanded (material has been included from many different sources) — numerous quotations from the early scriptures have been added, and both Sanskrit and Pali terms are given for key concepts. Revised 2010. - 2003: East Meets West: Buddhism and Science. Compiled and edited by Allan R. Bomhard. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. Revised 2009.
- 2008: The Dhammapada: The Path of the Dhamma. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship.
- 2009; An Outline of the Pali Canon. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship.
- 2002: The Essential Teachings of Buddhism
- Nārada MahātheraNarada Maha TheraThe Venerable Narada Maha Thera, born Sumanapala Perera was a Theravadan Buddhist monk and translator, the Superior of Vajirarama Temple in Colombo. He was a popular figure in his native country, Sri Lanka, and beyond....
and Allan R. Bomhard- 2010: The Buddha and His Teachings. 5th edition, extensively revised and expanded by Allan R. Bomhard, 1998-1999; revised and corrected 2009. Charleston, SC: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. Comprehensive reference manual of Theravādin Buddhism based upon the 4th edition (1988) of Nārada Mahāthera’s book of the same name, published by the Buddhist Missionary Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
See also
- Hermann MöllerHermann MöllerHermann Möller was a Danish linguist noted for his work in favor of a genetic relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic language families and his version of the laryngeal theory....
- Indo-Semitic languagesIndo-Semitic languagesIndo-Semitic is a theory that relates Indo-European and Semitic. This theory has never been widely accepted by linguists, though it has had some notable supporters....
- Nostratic languagesNostratic languagesNostratic is a proposed language family that includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, including the Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic as well as Kartvelian languages...