Johanna Nichols

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Linguist Johanna Nichols is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Berkeley. [1] Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush.

Contents 1 Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time 2 Linguistic prehistory 3 Languages of the Caucasus 4 External links

[edit] Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time

This book (Chicago, 1992) is Nichols's best known work, considered a pioneering work in the use of linguistic typology as a tool for understanding human migrations in prehistory.

• Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

[edit] Linguistic prehistory

• Linguistic Diversity and Language Origins
• Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics
• Linguistic diversity of the Americas can be reconciled with a recent colonization
• Deep Linguistic Prehistory with particular reference to Andamanese

[edit] Languages of the Caucasus

• The Chechen Language
• The Ingush Language
• An overview of languages of the Caucasus

[edit] External links

• Biography of Johanna Nichols
• Johanna Nichols' homepage
• Johanna Nichols' Publications