Merritt Ruhlen | Academic Influence

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Merritt Ruhlen

Communications

#201

World Rank

#375

Historical Rank

#111

USA Rank

Linguistics

#40

World Rank

#58

Historical Rank

#24

USA Rank

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Communications

Merritt Ruhlen's Degrees

PhD Linguistics Stanford University
Masters Linguistics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Merritt Ruhlen was an American linguist who worked on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin and evolution of modern humans. Amongst other linguists, Ruhlen's work was recognized as standing outside the mainstream of comparative-historical linguistics. He was the principal advocate and defender of Joseph Greenberg's approach to language classification.

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Merritt Ruhlen's Published Works

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A Guide to the World’s Languages (1987) (510)
Parallel evolution of genes and languages in the Caucasus region. (2011) (154)
The origin and evolution of word order (2011) (132)
African Y Chromosome and mtDNA Divergence Provides Insight into the History of Click Languages (2003) (131)
A Guide to the World''s Languages: Volume 1 (1987) (127)
A guide to the languages of the world (1977) (120)
A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations (2015) (113)
On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy (1994) (111)
LINGUISTIC ORIGINS OF NATIVE AMERICANS (1992) (104)
The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (1997) (100)
Worldwide Analysis of Genetic and Linguistic Relationships of Human Populations (2012) (87)
African Y Chromosome and mtDNA Divergence Provides Insight into the History of Click Languages (2003) (80)
The origin of the Na-Dene. (1998) (54)
The Origin of Language (1994) (51)
Kusunda: an Indo-Pacific language in Nepal. (2004) (36)
A Guide to the World's Languages, Vol. 1: Classification, 2nd Edn (1993) (35)
An amerind etymological dictionary (2007) (10)
Some comments on vowel nasalization in French (1974) (6)
Nasal Vowels. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 12. (1973) (6)
The Basque Language is Included in the Dene-Caucasian Language Family (2000) (4)
4 Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with, Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons (1994) (4)
Language Dispute (1989) (2)
In Reply: Linguistics and the Earliest Americans (1990) (2)
Manual for administrative law judges (1975) (2)
Proto-Amerind Numerals (1995) (1)
Taxonomic controversies in the twentieth century (2001) (1)
A Global Linguistic Database (2013) (1)
Linguistics and the Earliest Americans (1990) (0)
"When in Rome, Do as the Romanians Do" (1970) (0)
Comment on Kendall's Review of A Guide to the Languages of the World (1979) (0)
A NOTE ON ITALIAN PHONOLOGY (1975) (0)
Is there a Prehistory of Linguistics? (1995) (0)
Languages: Genetic Classification (2001) (0)
Evolution of Mongoloid languages: Macro-comparative and etymological analyses / Koji Onishi (1999) (0)
Worldwide analysis of genetic and linguistic relationships of human populations. 1995. (2012) (0)
Studying modern human migrations with integrated analyses of genetic and linguistic data (2015) (0)

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