Sergei Starostin
Sergei Starostin | |
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Starostin in 2004 | |
| Born | Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin March 24, 1953 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Died | September 30, 2005 (aged 52) Moscow, Russia |
| Children | Georgiy Starostin |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Aharon Dolgopolsky, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Andrey Zaliznyak, Vladimir Dybo, Sergei Yakhontov |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Moscow school, historical linguistics |
| Main interests | Long-range language reconstruction (especially Nostratic and Dené–Caucasian), glottochronology, accentology (especially Indo-European) |
| Notable ideas | Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, reconstruction of Proto-Altaic, Proto-North-Caucasian, Proto-Yeniseian, Proto-Tibeto-Burman, Proto-Kiranti, reconstruction of Old Chinese and Proto-Japanese, advancement of "recalibrated glottochronology" |
| Influenced | Merritt Ruhlen, John Bengtson |
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date. None of his proposed macrofamilies have seen wide-scale acceptance in the linguistic community (and are mostly seen as implausible).