Václav Blažek

Václav Blažek
Václav Blažek in Toruń, Poland (June 2015)
Born	23 April 1959 (1959-04-23) (age 65) Sokolov, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Czech
Occupation	Linguist
Academic work
Institutions	Masaryk University and University of West Bohemia
Main interests	Historical linguistics

Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959 in Sokolov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic).

His major interests include Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, Nostratic languages, Dené–Caucasian languages, and mathematical linguistics (lexicostatistics and glottochronology).

In his book Numerals, Blažek discusses words for numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa (Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Egyptian, Berber, Nubian, and Saharan), with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world.

References

• "Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda I". Archiv Orientální. 57 (3): 201–210. 1989.
• "Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda II". Archiv Orientální. 58 (3): 205–218. 1990.
• (with John D. Bengtson) (1995). "Lexica Dene–Caucasica". Central Asiatic Journal. 39 (1): 11–50.
• (with John D. Bengtson) (1995). "Lexica Dene–Caucasica". Central Asiatic Journal. 39 (2): 161–164.
• Numerals: Comparative-etymological analyses of numerical systems and their implications. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita. 1999. ISBN 9788021020702.
• (with John D. Bengtson) (2000). "Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications". Archiv Orientální. 68: 237–258.
• "Lexica Nostratica Addenda". Mother Tongue (8): 11–22. 2003.
• "On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey" (PDF). 2005.

External links

• Selection of Articles by Václav Blažek
• Václav Blažek Bibliography

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Long-range comparative linguistics

Concepts

• Comparative method
• Etymological dictionary
• Glottochronology
• Lexicostatistics
• Linguistic reconstruction
• Internal reconstruction
• Linguistic universal
• Macrofamily
• Mass comparison
• Origin of language
• Paleolinguistics
• Proto-language
• Swadesh list
• Dolgopolsky list
• Leipzig–Jakarta list

Language families

• Proto-Human language
• Borean
• Amerind
• Nostratic
• Elamo-Dravidian
• Eurasiatic
• Altaic
• Ural-Altaic
• Indo-Uralic
• Sino-Uralic
• Dené–Caucasian
• North Caucasian
• Austric
• Indo-Pacific

Linguists

• John Bengtson
• Václav Blažek
• Allan R. Bomhard
• Svetlana Burlak
• Aharon Dolgopolsky
• Vladimir Dybo
• Harold C. Fleming
• Joseph Greenberg
• Eugene Helimski
• Murray Gell-Mann
• Vladislav Illich-Svitych
• Frederik Kortlandt
• Alexis Manaster Ramer
• Sergei Nikolaev
• Sorin Paliga
• Holger Pedersen
• Ilia Peiros
• Martine Robbeets
• Merritt Ruhlen
• Vitaly Shevoroshkin
• Georgiy Starostin
• Sergei Starostin
• Alfredo Trombetti

Journals

• Journal of Language Relationship
• Mother Tongue

Books

• Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages
• The Languages of Africa

Institutions and schools

• Evolution of Human Languages
• Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics
• Russian State University for the Humanities
• Santa Fe Institute

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