Georgiy Starostin
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Georgiy Sergeevich Starostin, (Russian: Георгий Сергеевич Ста́ростин, born July 4, 1976), is a linguistics researcher, head of the Sinology Department of the Institute of Oriental Cultures at the Russian State University for the Humanities, where he also teaches. Starostin's field is long-range linguistic comparison. He is working on Dravidian languages and the Khoisan languages particularly. He is son of the late Sergei Starostin, also a noted linguistics researcher.
Starostin has also written a large number of extensive reviews of rock music groups and albums on his site, Only Solitaire, since 1998, named after a Jethro Tull song. Until April 2006 the site was frequently updated and covers in detail the music of most of the major rock groups and musicians of the 1960s and 1970s, although he has reviewed less material of groups primarily associated with the 1980s and beyond. He has said that the main reason for this is because he believes that rock music has been becoming steadily worse since the 1960s to the point that it is now "dead" [1], and cites Mark Prindle as the original insipiration for him becoming an online music critic. [2]
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- Starostin G. A lexicostatistical approach towards reconstructing Proto-Khoisan // Mother Tongue, vol. VIII, 2003.
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