Allan R. Bomhard

Allan R. Bomhard (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American linguist.^[1]

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).

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.

Nonlinguistic publications

• Allan R. Bomhard
  • 2002: The Essential Teachings of Buddhism. 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.
• Nārada Mahāthera 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.

References

See also

• Hermann Möller
• Indo-Semitic languages
• Nostratic languages