From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 1997| Author: Melchert, H. Craig | COPYRIGHT 1997 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This long-awaited English version of an already famous work appears in a two-volume format, differing from that of the Russian original. The first volume contains the languages and their written sources, a methodological introduction, phonology and morphophonology, morphology and syntax, dialectology, lexicon, homeland and migration patterns, and a brief epilogue. The only addition to the original that I noted is the very last footnote on page 864. The second volume contains bibliogra...