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). He is currently affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, in its Evolution of Human Language Project. 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).

References

Bengtson, John D. & Merritt Ruhlen (1994). Global Etymologies. In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.