NOSTRATIC -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. What is Nostratic? -- 2. Method as the central issue -- 3. The conference and this volume -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SOME DRAFT PRINCIPLES FOR CLASSIFICATION -- NOSTRATIC, EURASIATIC, AND INDO-EUROPEAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Nostratic -- 4. Critique of Muscovite views on Nostratic -- 5. Eurasiatic -- 6. Indo-European -- 6.1 Laryngeals -- 6.2 Root structure patterning -- 6.3 Verb morphology -- 6.4 Vowel gradation -- 6.5 Indo-European consonantism -- REFERENCES -- NOTES: -- THE CONVERGENCE OFEURASIATIC AND NOSTRATIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of views regarding the membership of Nostratic -- 2.1 Holger Pedersen -- 2.2 Vladislav Illich-Svitych -- 2.3 Aron Dolgopolsky -- 3. The position of Afroasiatic -- 4. Some problems of methodology -- REFERENCES -- EXPLORING THE NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS -- 1. Early responses to the theory -- 2. A new approach to Nostratic -- 3. Apparent weaknesses of the theory -- 4. Significance of the daughter languages for Nostratic research -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INDO-EUROPEAN AND NOSTRATIC:SOME FURTHER COMMENTS(A RESPONSE TO"EXPLORING THE NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS") -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Comments on "Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis", 2 (general issues) -- 2.1 Which languages? -- 2.2 How many etymologies are needed? -- 2.3 On the rate of linguistic change -- 2.4 On borrowing -- 3. Comments on "Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis", 3 (and IE *mēms-'meat, flesh') -- 3.1. Indo-European and Nostratic: A realistic approach -- 3.2 On IE *mēms- 'meat, flesh' and PN *Homsa 'id.' -- 4. Comments on "Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis", 4 (and IE *penkwe'five') -- 4.1 Introductory -- 4.2 Notes on IE *penkwe '5' and related (?) forms -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES.

NOSTRATIC: A PERSONAL ASSESSMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminary considerations -- 2.1 The Slava cult -- 2.2 Nostratic as a shape-shifter -- 2.3 Nostratic as a set of intertwined hypotheses -- 2.4 About the force of numbers: the many proposed Nostratic cognate se -- 2.5 The non-impossibility of evaluating Nostratic -- 2.6 Nostratic and areal linguistic considerations -- 3. Assessment of Nostratic -- 3.1 General methodological problems with Nostratic -- 3.2 The nature and role of the Uralic evidence in the Nostratic hypothesis -- 3.3 Forms representing Dolgopolsky's (1986[1964a]: 34-35) list of most stablelexemes. -- 3.4 K&S forms -- 3.5 Additional IS forms -- 4. How American Indian linguistics has been involved in Nostraticwritings -- 4.1 On the alleged ignorance of Americanists and the asserted poverty of Americanist methodology -- 4.2 The alleged dishonesty of Americanists -- 4.3 Alleged Americanist contributions to long-range proposals involving socalled Nostratic languages -- 5. Conclusions -- Abbreviations: -- REFERENCES -- PROBABILISTIC EVIDENCE FOR INDO-URALIC -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Binary list-comparisons: Describing the problem -- 2. Some other methodological questions -- 3. Indo-European and Uralic -- 4. The impact of phonotactic constraints -- 5. Using longer wordlists -- 6. Prospects and implications -- 7. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX I: THE HUNDRED-WORD LISTS -- APPENDIX II: COMPLETE LIST OF COMPARANDA -- A PROBABILISTIC EVALUATIONOF NORTH EURASIATIC NOSTRATIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Procedure - Getting Started -- 2.1. Semantic similarity and word list selection -- 2.2 Phonetic similarity -- 3. The shift test method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Results with the Basic 100-Word List -- 4.2 Results with the Second 100-Word List -- 4.3 Results with the 200-Word Lists -- 5. Discussion.

6. Comparison with Statistically-Based Work of Others -- 7. Summary -- REFERENCES -- RESPONSE TO OSWALT AND RINGE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The problem of chance resemblances -- 2. Probabilistic methods -- 2.1 Oswalt's method -- 2.2 Ringe's method -- 3. Science and the evaluation of hypotheses -- REFERENCES -- THE IMPLICATIONS OF LISLAKH FOR NOSTRATIC -- REFERENCES -- NOSTRATIC AND ALTAIC -- Words common to Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic -- Words common to Indo-European and Uralic -- Words common to Uralic and Altaic -- Words common to Indo-European and Altaic -- Personal pronouns in different Altaic branches: -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- REGULAR SOUND CORRESPONDENCESAND LONG-DISTANCE GENETIC COMPARISON -- 1. Nostratic and Altaic pronouns, -- 2. Old English and Modern English pronouns -- 3. Nostratic and Altaic pronouns, -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- LANGUAGE INDEX.