Johanna Nichols

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Linguist Johanna Nichols is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Berkeley. [link] Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush.

This book (Chicago, 1992) is Nichols's best known work, considered a pioneering work in the use of linguistic typology as a tool for understanding human migrations in prehistory.

• [Leonard Bloomfield Book Award]

Linguistic Prehistory

• [Linguistic Diversity and Language Origins]
• [Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics]
• [Linguistic diversity of the Americas can be reconciled with a recent colonization]
• [Deep Linguistic Prehistory with particular reference to Andamanese]

Languages of the Caucasus

• [The Chechen Language]
• [The Ingush Language]
• [An overview of languages of the Caucasus]

External link

• [Biography of Johanna Nichols]

 

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