I-XII -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Preliminary Remarks -- 1.2. Methodology -- 1.3. Critique of Moscovite Views on Nostratic -- 1.4. A Survey of the Nostratic Languages -- 1.5. Problems of Subgrouping -- 2. COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGY OF THE NOSTRATIC LANGUAGES (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON INDO-EUROPEAN) -- 2.1. Changing Views on Proto-Indo-European Phonology -- 2.2. The Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals -- 2.3. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Indo-European -- 2.4. Remarks on the Proto-Indo-European Consonant System -- 2.5. The Proto-Indo-European Vowel System -- 2.6. Accentuation and Ablaut in Proto-Indo-European -- 2.7. Proto-Kartvelian (South Caucasian) -- 2.8. The Proto-Kartvelian Vowel System -- 2.9. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Kartvelian -- 2.10. The Proto-Afroasiatic Consonant System -- 2.11. The Proto-Afroasiatic Vowel System -- 2.12. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Afroasiatic -- 2.13. Uralic-Yukaghir -- 2.14. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Uralic -- 2.15. Elamo-Dravidian -- 2.16. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Dravidian -- 2.17. Altaic -- 2.18. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Altaic -- 2.19. Sumerian -- 2.20. Proto-Nostratic -- 2.21. Root Structure Patterning in Proto-Nostratic -- 2.22. Correspondences -- 2.23. From Proto-Nostratic to Proto-Indo-European -- 3. NOSTRATIC MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX (John C. Kerns) -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Scope of Discussion -- 3.3. The Pre-Neolithic Background -- 3.4. Morphology and Syntax -- 3.5. Nostratic Grammar -- 3.6. Conclusions -- 4. COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE NOSTRATIC LANGUAGES -- 4.1. Introductory Remarks -- 4.2. Proto-Nostratic *b -- 4.3. Proto-Nostratic *p[h] -- 4.4. Proto-Nostratic *d -- 4.5. Proto-Nostratic *t[h] -- 4.6. Proto-Nostratic *tl -- 4.7. Proto-Nostratic *dy -- 4.8. Proto-Nostratic *ty[h] -- 4.9. Proto-Nostratic *t'y -- 4.10. Proto-Nostratic *sy -- 4.11. Proto-Nostratic *dz -- 4.12. Proto-Nostratic *ts[h] -- 4.13. Proto-Nostratic *ts' -- 4.14. Proto-Nostratic *s -- 4.15. Proto-Nostratic *tl[h] -- 4.16. Proto-Nostratic *tl' -- 4.17. Proto-Nostratic *g -- 4.18. Proto-Nostratic *k[h] -- 4.19. Proto-Nostratic *k' -- 4.20. Proto-Nostratic *gy -- 4.21. Proto-Nostratic *ky[h] -- 4.22. Proto-Nostratic *k'y -- 4.23. Proto-Nostratic *gw -- 4.24. Proto-Nostratic *kw[h] -- 4.25. Proto-Nostratic *k'w -- 4.26. Proto-Nostratic *G -- 4.27. Proto-Nostratic *q[h] -- 4.28. Proto-Nostratic *q' -- 4.29. Proto-Nostratic *q'w -- 4.30. Proto-Nostratic *ʕ -- 4.31. Proto-Nostratic *ħ -- 4.32. Proto-Nostratic *ʔ -- 4.33. Proto-Nostratic *h -- 4.34. Proto-Nostratic *y -- 4.35. Proto-Nostratic *w -- 4.36. Proto-Nostratic *m -- 4.37. Proto-Nostratic *n -- 4.38. Proto-Nostratic *ny -- 4.39. Proto-Nostratic *l -- 4.40. Proto-Nostratic *r -- References -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index Verborum -- Subject Index