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1995. Lexica Dene–Caucasica. Central Asiatic Journal 39.1: 11-50; 39.2: 161-164.
1997. Ein Vergleich von Buruschaski und Nordkaukasisch. Georgica 20: 88-94.
1998. Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan: A Hypothesis of S.A. Starostin. General Linguistics 36.1/2: 33-49.
1999. Wider genetic affiliations of the Chinese language. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27.1: 1-12.
2000. Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications. Archiv Orientální 68: 237-258.
2003. Notes on Basque Comparative Phonology. Mother Tongue 8: 21-39.
2008. Materials for a Comparative Grammar of the Dene-Caucasian Languages. In Aspects of Comparative Linguistics, v. 3., pp. 45–118. Moscow: RSUH Publishers.
2008. The Languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the Best Explanation. In In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory, J.D. Bengtson, pp. 241–262.
2009. Ainu and Austric: Evidence of Genetic Relationship. Journal of Language Relationship 2: 1-24.
2010. “Dene–Yeniseian” and the Rest of Dene–Caucasian: Part 3: The Burusho–Yeniseian Hypothesis; Part 4: Burusho–Dene. In Working Papers in Athabaskan Languages, ed. by Siri Tuttle & Justin Spence, pp. 118. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
2011. On the Burushaski–Indo–European hypothesis by I. Čašule. Journal of Language Relationship 6: 25-63.
2011. Back to Proto–Sapiens. The Global Kinship TermsPapa, Mama and Kaka. In Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies, Ed. by Doug Jones & Bojka Milicic, pp. 38–45. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
2013. The Early Dispersions of Homo sapiens and Proto–Human from Africa. Mother Tongue 18: 143-187.
2015. The Dene–Sino–Caucasian hypothesis: state of the art and perspectives. Discussion draft posted on Academia.edu, 2015.
2015. A Universal Proto-Interjection System in Modern-Day Humans. Mother Tongue 20: 249-261.
2016. Confirmation de l’ancienne extension des Basques par l’étude des dialectes de l’Europe de l’Ouest romane. Journal of Language Relationship 14/1: 1-27.
2016. Iarl and Iormun-; Arya- and Aryaman- : A Study in Indo-European Comparative Mythology. Comparative Mythology 2.1: 33–67.
2017. Basque and its Closest Relatives: A New Paradigm. Cambridge, Mass.: Mother Tongue Press/Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory.
2017. The Anthropological Context of Euskaro-Caucasian. Iran and the Caucasus 21.1: 75-91.
2018. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Euskera? Romance Philology 72: 15-33.