Etymologia

Global etymologies

Dowód z cipy: "But if we ignore these details, then the prob-ability that the particular sound/meaning correlation “PUT/female genitals” arose independently fourteen times will be (1/147)13, or about one chance in ten octillion, by our rough calculations. We feel that this qualif i es as a long shot; certainly descent from a common source is the more likely explanation."
Eurocentryzm: "Also overlooked in these basic texts are language families other than Indo-European. The origin of this anomaly—which knows no parallel in the biological world—is a consequence of the primogeniture of Indo-European in the pantheon of identif i ed families, and the subsequent elaboration of the family by Europeans in the nineteenth century."
Jones wymyśla język praw indoeuropejski, chodź arabski hebrajski turecki tam nie pasują: "When Sir William Jones announced in 1786 that Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin— and probably Gothic and Celtic as well—had all “sprung from some common source,” he essentially resolved the f i rst stage of comparative linguistics at the outset: he identif i ed f i ve branches of Indo-European and hypothesized that all f i ve were altered later forms of a single language that no longer existed. What was left unstated in Jones’s historic formulation was the fact that languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish—languages that Jones knew well—were"
Zobacz: "Pokorny (1959), the standard Indo-European etymological dictionary"
Historia języka jak archeologia bazuje na drobnych szczątkach: "Historians and historical linguists—not to mention paleontologists working from handfuls of bashed fossils—use what-ever material is available; they do not demand that the evidence be complete or immaculate."
Konkluzja: "In the long run we expect the evidence for monogenesis of extant languages to become so compelling that the question will be not whether all the world’s languages are related, but why it took the linguistic community so long to recognize this obvious fact."

Bibliografia

John Bengtson, Merritt Ruhlen, Global etymologies, January 1994