John Bengtson
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John D. Bengtson is a historical and anthropological linguist. He is a past president and currently a vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and has served as editor of the journal Mother Tongue (1996-2003). His areas of specialization include Scandinavian languages and linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, African languages, Dene-Caucasian languages, and paleolinguistics (the study of prehistory through linguistic evidence).
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- Bengtson, John D. 1994. (with Merritt Ruhlen) Global Etymologies. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- 1994. Edward Sapir and the 'Sino-Dene' Hypothesis. Anthropological Science 102.3: 207-230.
- 1995. (with Václav Blažek) Lexica Dene-Caucasica. Central Asiatic Journal 39.1: 11-50; 39.2: 161-164.
- 1997. Ein Vergleich von Buruschaski und Nordkaukasisch. Georgica 20: 88-94.
- 1998. Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan: A Hypothesis of S.A. Starostin. General Linguistics 36.1/2: 33-49.
- 1999. Wider genetic affiliations of the Chinese language. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27.1: 1-12.
- 2000. (with Václav Blažek) Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications. Archiv Orientální 68: 237-258.
- 2003. Notes on Basque Comparative Phonology. Mother Tongue 8: 21-39.
- 2004. Some features of Dene-Caucasian phonology (with special reference to Basque). Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 30.4: 33-54.
