Mother Tongue (Journal)
Mother tongue
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description | American science magazine |
Area of Expertise | Linguistics |
First edition | 1995 |
Frequency of publication | yearly |
ISSN (print) | 1087-0326 |
Mother Tongue is the annual comprehensive journal of the Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory (ASLIP for short). It has been published by ASLIP since 1995 and contains linguistic articles with a focus on genetic language comparison and macro families . Its first editor and President of ASLIP was Harold C. Fleming, the last Journal XXI to date was published under the direction of John D. Bengtson in 2016. ASLIP President is currently Michael Witzel .
Main topics since 1995
Eurasia
- Nostratically 2007, 2008, 2009
- Siculic 2015
- Basque 1995, 1999, 2005, 2009
- Kartwelic languages 2007
- North Caucasian Languages 2003, 2009, 2016
- Yenisian languages 1998, 2010
- Paleosiberian languages, Ural 2008
- Ainu 1998
- Ural-Jukagir 2015
- Old Anatolian languages 2008, 2015
- Sumerian 1997, 1999
- Elamish 2002
- Dravidian languages 2007
- South Asian Substrate Languages 1999 Special , 2006
- Nahali, Kusunda 1996, 1997, 2005
- Austro-Asian and Austronesian 1999, 2006
- Austro-Asian languages 2008
- Shompen 2007, 2008
Indo-Pacific and Australia
- Indo-Pacific Languages 2006
- Australian languages 2004
- Tasmanian 2002
Africa
- Shabo, Ongota, Kadu Group 2002, 2004
- Bangeri Me 2007
- South Khoisan Languages 2003
- Berber languages 2009
- Afro-Asian languages 2011, 2015
- Kuschitisch, Omotisch 2015
America
- Salish & North Caucasian Languages 2003
In addition, current important new publications in this area are discussed.
Authors and collaborators
Authors and employees of the previous editions were among others
- Paul K. Benedict
- John D. Bengtson
- Václav Blažek
- Roger Blench
- Allan R. Bomhard
- Viacheslav Chirikba
- John Colarusso
- Igor M. Diakonoff
- George van Driem
- Christopher Ehret
- Harold C. Fleming
- Joseph H. Greenberg †
- Irén Hegedüs
- Sergei Jatsemirsky
- Vitaly Shevoroshkin
- Paul Sidwell
- Sergei A. Starostin †
- RL Trask †
- Edvard J. Vajda
- Paul Whitehouse
- Michael Witzel