Kapranov Y. Diachronic Interpretation and Verification of Degrees of Nostratic Languages Relationship (Case Study of Etymons *HuKa, *wol[a], *wete, *phah- (~ *ph?h-), *marV).

This thesis systematises theoretical achievements of Nostratic Linguistics as one of the fields in Linguistic Macrocomparative Studies. It is aimed at exploring both the divergent-convergent and convergent-divergent relationships among the Nostratic language families. Nostratic theory is one of the concepts of monocentrism, which has actualised a new turn in Linguistic Macro-Comparative Studies, associated with the necessity to involve langauge and proto-language data material achievements from other areas of humanities into the scientific interpretation. The necessity of testing the terms of “diachronic interpretation” and “quantative verification” as the key notions for representation of diachronic divergent-convergent and convergent-divergent phonological, morphonological and semantic transfornations observed in the Nostratic data material has been reasoned in Cognitive Linguistic Macrocomparative understanding.