John Colarusso - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
Professor, Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor, Linguistics and Languages, Faculty of Humanities
Member, Origins Institute, Faculty of Science

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book reviews
- Ingush Grammar by Johanna Nichols (review). Ed. 56. 2014
- Analysis of Texts and a Basic Lexicon of the Abkhaz Language by Tamio Yanagisawa, in cooperation with Ana Tsvinaria, and: Analytic Dictionary of Abkhaz by Tamio Yanagisawa, with the assistance of Anna Tsvinaria-Abramishvili (review). Ed. 55. 2013
- The Oldest Prose Literature, The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Ed. 38. 2010
- When They Severed Earth from Sky, How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. Ed. 37. 2009
- American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent. Ed. 34. 1992
- Folklore Matters. Ed. 34. 1992
books
chapters
- Bzhedukh West Circassian 2021
- The Narts 2021
- An Ancient Loan into Proto-Indo-European from the Caucasus. 38-47. 2020
- Peoples, languages and lore. 32-51. 2020
- A Brief Synopsis of Ubykh with Analyzed Text. 89-112. 2017
- Foreword to Hugh Spencer, Why I Hunt Flying Saucers and Other Fantasticals 2016
- The Typology of the Gutturals. 93-109. 2013
- More Pontic. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. 41-60. 2003
- How to Describe the Sounds of the Northwest Caucasian Languages. 61-113. 1994
- Typological paralells between Proto-Indo-European and the northwest Cuacasian languages. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. 475-475. 1981
- Ethnographic Information on a Wild Man of the Caucasus. 255-264. 1980
- Phonemic Contrasts and Distinctive Features: Caucasian Examples. 307-321. 1979
journal articles
- Yaşar, Murat. The North Caucasus Borderland: Between Muscovy and the Ottoman Empire, 1555-1605. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 272 Page, ISBN: 9781474498692. Kadim. 213-218. 2023
- Narts (Caucasian Myth and Its Sources). Cambridge Myth. 2021
- Remarks on V. A. Chirikba, “From North to North West, How North West Caucasian Evolved from North Caucasian". Mother Tongue. 2021
- Thoughts on Bomhard's Work. Journal of Indo-European Studies. 47:125-141. 2019
- The Legacy of the Berserker. Comparative Mythology. 5:1-12. 2019
- Some Biogenetic Considerations for Historical Linguistics: Phyletic Comparison. Journal of Indo-European Studies. 46:312-360. 2018
- Pondering the mystery of why the Russians came to Washington. The Conversation. 2018
- A Platonic Paradox. Inference: International Review of Science. 3. 2017
- Comment on “Can human populations be stabilized?” by Stephen G. Warren. Earth's Future. 4:16-17. 2016
- Vastness Revisited. LACUS Forum. 39:208-214. 2016
- Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases. Hesperia. 83:447-447. 2014
- The Hunters. Journal of Indo-European Studies. 37. 2009
- The Hunters (Indo-European Proto-myths: The Storm God, The Good King, The Mighty Hunter). Journal of Indo-European Studies. 36:442-463. 2008
- The functions revisited, a Nart god of war and three Nart heroes. Journal of Indo-European Studies. 34:27-54. 2006
- Russia confronts Chechnya: Roots of a separatist conflict. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 33:633-636. 2000
- Proto-Pontic: Phyletic links between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Northwest Caucasian. Journal of Indo-European Studies. 25:119-151. 1997
- CHECHNYA - THE WAR WITHOUT WINNERS. Current History. 94:329-336. 1995
- Chechnya. Current History. 94:329-336. 1995
- Abkhazia. Central Asian Survey. 14:75-96. 1995
- Book reviews. Survival. 37:165-184. 1995
- Notes on contributors. Central Asian Survey. 14:2-2. 1995
- PROTO-NORTHWEST CAUCASIAN (OR HOW TO CRACK A VERY HARD NUT). Journal of Indo-European Studies. 22:1-35. 1994
- Waitoreke, the New Zealand 'Otter': A Linguistic Solution to a Cryptozoological Problem. Cryptozoology. 7:46-60. 1988
- Pharyngeals and Pharyngealization in Salishan and Wakashan. International Journal of American Linguistics. 51:366-368. 1985
- Circassian /-qa-/ Meets Semantic Algebra and Ergativity. Folia Slavica. 7:49-90. 1984