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This book teaches us this lesson: However good a theoretician of linguistics one is, it is a paramount importance that he would master the languages he operates in his work. As far as it is known, and as it was stated by V. himself, he is no Vasconist, no Celticist and no Semitic or Afroasian linguist, he doesn't have special preparation in all these areas, neither in onomastics.2. Baldi, Philip & B. Richard Page, 2006. “Europa vasconica-Europa semitica. Theo Vennemann, Gen. Nierfeld, i..., Lingua 116, pp. 2183–2220.
In summary, then, we would say that V’s methodology lacks verifiability in that it exploits similarities of structure and meaning which may be the result of typological factors or chance, or may be simply mirages which are only conceivable under the theory which V has formulated. Some, even many of V’s etymologies may be right, and it must be conceded that Vargues his case in a persuasive and seductive manner. But it is difficult to escape the possibility of false equations, a constant hazard in long range etymological research. After all, there are enough similarities between old Basque and Proto-Semitic phonology and PIE phonology that some lexical look-alikes are inevitable. Demonstrations of this type were commonplace during the height of the Amerind debate (see e.g. Campbell (1988) on Greenberg (1987), earlier Doerfer (1973)), and we need not repeat them here. The likelihood of acceptable-looking pairings is increased by the flexible semantics which is inherent in all historical work of any time depth.Sobre las etimologías de Vennemann que probarían un substrato semítico en las lenguas célticas y germánicas (pp. 2209-2210):
V follows with an assertion of his position on the art of etymology (619): ‘‘But etymology is the art of the second glance, almost by definition. If the origin of each word revealed itself at first glance, we would not need etymology’’. We leave it to the reader to decide if a second glance was needed for this or for other words which V has analyzed in the context of his theory.Finalmente, sobre el libro en general (pp. 2216):
Given the time depth of V’s theory, however, the story of what happened in European prehistory is much murkier. It is always difficult to prove a negative, and it is impossible to do so for human events in the eighth millennium BCE. In other words, V’s critics will probably never be able to prove that Vasconic speakers were not present in much of Europe after the last ice-age or that Atlantic speakers did not establish themselves in coastal areas of Europe beginning in the fifth millennium. What V and other scholars must do is evaluate the available evidence. In our view, a monograph would have given V an opportunity to present his strongest arguments in a unified account of the linguistic prehistory of Europe. A monograph would have allowed V to discard weak evidence, eliminate redundancies, respond to several decades of debate and critique, and highlight essential elements of his case. Instead, V offers the reader of this volume a wide array of evidence in a gradual, often repetitive fashion. In choosing this format, V opens his theory up to misinterpretation and dismissal by those who find a particular piece of his argument to be objectionable.Tampoco hay que olvidar el artículo de Peter R. Kitson ("British and European river names", Transactions of the Philological Society 94 [1996], pp. 73-118). Kitson demuestra que los datos hidronímicos con los que trabaja Vennemann son de origen indoeuropeo.
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