Re: IE, AA, Nostratic & Black Athena

Haakan, Dennis and all,

A very critical (not to say devastating) review of Bernal's exercises
in etymology, written by competent linguists, can be found in:

Jasanoff, J. & A. Nussbaum. 1996. "Word games: the linguistic
evidence in Black Athena". In: M. Lefkovitz & G. Rogers (eds.) _Black
Athena Revisited_. Chapel Hill: University of NC Press, pp. 177-205.

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Piotr