Eurasische Ursprache: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion

by Claus Birkholz

Spracharchäologie auf anderem Niveau. Ansprechpartner nicht nur Linguisten alten Stils. Auch wer Latein oder Chinesisch lernt oder gelernt hat, wird seine Freude haben. Germanisten willkommen!

Ausgehend von prähistorischen Fakten aus Geologie, Klimatologie und Archäologie entwickelt sich vor den Augen des Lesers auf Basis klassisch etymologischer Sammlungen ein lebendiges Bild des täglichen Lebens in der Steinzeit. Aus dem Sinngehalt einzelner Buchstaben schält sich ein Panorama semantischer Brillanz von Kulturepochen längst vergessener Zeiten heraus.

Mannigfaltige Querbeziehungen des indoeuropäischen Raumes zu sino-tibetischen Kulturen her- und hinüber schaffen ein Bild prägnanter Formenvielfalt, reich an Nuancen, die sich nur auf Grundlage eines gemeinsamen Ursprunges beider Sprachgruppen deuten lassen; dieser wird in Teilen rekonstruiert.

Mit der Aufdeckung systematischer Lautverschiebungsgesetze offenbart sich dem Leser eine Vergangenheit eigener Natur. Zusammenhänge ungeahnten Ausmaßes verknüpfen die Kulturen Europas mit denen Ostasiens. Eine Fundgrube für sprachlich Interessierte. Und für den Prähistoriker eröffnet sich eine reichhaltige Quelle zur Gewinnung nie für möglich gehaltener Erkenntnisse über das Paläo- wie Neolithikum - trotz des Fehlens schriftlicher Überlieferungen.

301 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 24, 2015

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 1 out of 5]

So yes, the very first thing that I did check with Claus Birkholz's Eurasische Ursprache: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion (the title of which means to say that the author is attempting to reconstruct the supposed prehistoric Eurasiatic mother tongue which he believes to be the base of and for all or most of the languages of Asia and Europe) was if he, if Birkholz in his academic source section had listed either Jospeh H. Greenberg's Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives or Merritt Ruhlen's The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, two one hundred percent linguistics-based tomes that while indeed rather controversial still and truly do need to be (in my humble opinion at least) present in ANY bibliography regarding books on Eurasiatic and the theory that there might have been a prehistoric mother tongue from which most European and Asian languages have developed, evolved and spread. And yes, the fact that both Greenberg's and Ruhlen's work are completely and utterly missing in action from Claus Birkholz's sources in Eurasische Ursprache: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion, this I do think is a huge and major academic shortcoming and lack. For while these two scholars do of course have their detractors, both Joseph H. Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen are nevertheless important, are well-known international linguists whose books absolutely do need to be acknowledged and also to be made academic use of in any attempts to linguistically "reconstruct" the purported prehistoric and original mother tongue of Eurasia.

And while in Eurasische Ursprache: Versuch einer RekonstruktionClaus Birkholz does tend to pen his belief in a common Eurasian original mother tongue of prehistory in a generally easy to understand manner, frankly and annoyingly, Birkholz has (in my opinion) also gone rather too far with regard to keeping his presented text simple, since really, albeit that too much linguistic jargon and complex musings on word and sound changes of course are or can indeed be problematic, too little of the same is also something to be avoided. And yes indeed, Eurasische Ursprache: Versuch einer Rekonstruktionactually and from where I am standing really and truly does sound more like the uneducated musings of a Eurasiatic fanboy who thinks that all of the languages of Europe and Asia are prehistorically related and sprung from a common source but whose pontifications, while interesting to a point, are also not in any manner linguistically sound and based on the standard and accepted methods of diachronistic reconstruction, presenting in Eurasische Ursparche: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion some intriguing thoughts, points of view and possible word examples perhaps, but with no real linguistic proof and nothing that would ever make Eurasische Ursprache: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion academically solid and to be taken in any way seriously as a work of language and language prehistory based scholarship.