Georgiy Starostin | |
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 Starostin in 2011 | |
| Born | Georgiy Sergeevich Starostin Гео́ргий Серге́евич Ста́ростин (1976-07-04)4 July 1976 (age 49) |
| Parent | Sergei Starostin |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
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Georgiy Sergeevich "George" Starostin (Russian:Гео́ргий Серге́евич Ста́ростин; born 4 July 1976)[1] is a Russianlinguist and the son of the latehistorical linguistSergei Starostin (1953–2005).
Starostin is also known as a self-published music reviewer, author of theOnly Solitaire Blog,[2][3] which he named after aJethro Tull song.[4]
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Starostin focuses almost exclusively on maintaining the following of his father's projects: the Evolution of Human Languages project; TheTower of Babel, a publicly searchable online database containing information about manyEurasia'slanguage families;[5][6] and STARLING, a software package to aid comparative linguists.[7][8]
TheEvolution of Human Languages (EHL) is an international project – of which Starostin inherited his father's membership – on "the linguistic prehistory of humanity" coordinated by theSanta Fe Institute. The project distinguishes about 6000languages currently spoken around the world, and aims to provide a detailed classification similar to the acceptedclassification of biological species.
Their idea is that "all representatives of the speciesHomo sapiens presumably share a common origin, [so] it would be natural to suppose – although this is a goal yet to be achieved – that all human languages also go back to some common source. Most existing classifications, however, do not go beyond some 300-400 language families that are relatively easy to discern. This restriction has natural reasons: languages must have been spoken and constantly evolving for at least 40,000 years (and quite probably more), while any two languages separated from a common source inevitably lose almost all superficially common features after some 6,000-7,000 years".[9]
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TheTower of Babel [ru] is an international etymological database project coordinated by theCenter of Comparative Linguistics [ru] of theRussian State University for the Humanities. The project aims to "join efforts in the research of long range connections between established language families of the world. The Internet is used to combine these attempts and to build up a commonly accessible database of roots, or etyma reconstructed for the World's major (and minor) linguistic stocks." Starostin's role specifically is for hosting the website.[10]
The Starlingdatabase management system software program is part of his father's Tower of Babel project. This software program aims to support "various types of linguistic text and database processing, including handling of linguistic fonts in the DOS and WINDOWS operating systems, operations with linguistic databases and Internet presentation of linguistic data".[11]
Starostin has written a number of articles on Dravidian, Yeniseian, Khoisan, and language isolates. A selection includes:[12]
Der einzige Mensch, dessen schreiberisches Schaffen in den Weiten der Digitalität ich verfolge, ist George Starostin. Starostin heißt eigentlich Georgiy Sergeevich und wirkt, wenn er nicht gerade Musik rezensiert, als russischer Linguist.
Und Eric Pfeil schreibt im Rolling Stone weiterhin fleißig Poptagebuch, unter anderem empfiehlt er ganz ausdrücklich das Musikblog des russischen Linguisten George Starostin
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