Black Athena fades away. A consideration of Martin Bernal's linguistic arguments
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Black Athena, vol. III The Linguistic
Evidence fue publicado en 2006 con muy
poco ruido. Lo cual no es sorprendente:
el libro que pretende ofrecer a los lectores
pruebas que sustenten las polémicas etimologías
afrocéntricas con las cuales Bernal
había escandalizado a la mayor parte de
filólogos clásicos y especialistas en indoeuropeo,
entre otras innúmeras derivaciones,
mezcla comparaciones a partir del chino
con datos procedentes del egipcio y del semítico
occidental de una forma tan irrespirablemente
opaca que los árboles no permiten
ver el bosque. El presente artículo se
propone desenredar la maraña que forman
los varios estratos en la argumentación de
Bernal, analizando etimologías individuales
y aquellas especulaciones a nivel macrolingüístico
cuyo propósito es disminuir la
autonomía del proto-indoeuropeo.
Black Athena, vol. III The Linguistic Evidence came out in 2006 to very little fanfare. Unsurprisingly so; the book which professes to give readers the demonstration of the contentious Afrocentric etymologies with which Bernal had scandalized most Classicists and Indo-Europeanists, among countless other derivations, intermingles Chinese comparanda with the marshaling of Egyptian and West Semitic data in such a tightly opaque manner that the wood cannot easily be seen for the trees. The present piece aims to disentangle the various strata of Bernal’s argumentation, analysing individual etymologies and the macrolinguistic speculations seeking to diminish the autonomy of Proto-Indo- European.
Black Athena, vol. III The Linguistic Evidence came out in 2006 to very little fanfare. Unsurprisingly so; the book which professes to give readers the demonstration of the contentious Afrocentric etymologies with which Bernal had scandalized most Classicists and Indo-Europeanists, among countless other derivations, intermingles Chinese comparanda with the marshaling of Egyptian and West Semitic data in such a tightly opaque manner that the wood cannot easily be seen for the trees. The present piece aims to disentangle the various strata of Bernal’s argumentation, analysing individual etymologies and the macrolinguistic speculations seeking to diminish the autonomy of Proto-Indo- European.







