Sergei Starostin
Sergei Starostin · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Russian linguist known for comparative reconstruction of language macrofamilies.
1953, Moscow, Soviet Union — 2005, Moscow, Russia
Soviet Union · Russia
Sergei Starostin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Russian linguist known for comparative reconstruction of language macrofamilies.
Starostin was a Russian historical linguist who advanced the comparative reconstruction of deep language macrofamilies, proposing the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis and refining Altaic and Nostratic studies with rigorous statistical methods. He was born in Moscow and became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The public biographies reviewed here do not document his religious background; he appears in Jinfo's listing of Jewish figures in linguistics.
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Russian linguist known for comparative reconstruction of language macrofamilies.
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