Afroasiatic

Among the topics are a semantic map approach to a typology of impersonal constructions, impersonal constructs and accusative subjects in late Latin, the case of meteorological predication in Afroasiatic, a diachronic study of the impersonal passive in Ainu, and impersonal constructions in some Oceanic languages.

Related to this Borean language family are Eurasiatic, Afroasiatic, SinoCaucasian, Austric, and Amerind roots that form the basic languages of the Borean language family.

(2/) Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.

One might be tempted to interpret this moment as a postcolonial gesture along the lines of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (1991), the controversial book in which he claims to trace the great achievements of the ancient Greeks back to origins in Africa (Egypt in particular).

In 1987, Martin Bernal sent shock waves through the academic world with his Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Rutgers University Press).

1, UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies (November 1977), 2; and Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol.

In Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected Papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Jacqueline Lecarme (ed.), 151-185.

For examples of glorification or problematic appropriation of classical Hellenism, see, among others, Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1979), Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization: vol.

Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987-1991): Mary R.

It is essentially a riposte to critics of Martin Bernal's iconoclastic works, the first of them being the controversial two-volume work, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.

In this latest broadside, he shows that the main issues he initially raised in 1987 with Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation, Volume 1 -- The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 17851985 will just not go away, although many of his most vocal critics now fondly wish they would.

The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation", en: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece (1785-1985).

Givler cites the buzz on a controversial work like Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985) by Martin Bernal (Rutgers University Press, 1989) as a early marker of reviving broader interest in African American titles during the `90s.

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic roots of classical Civilization, volume I, fabrication of ancient Greece 1785-1985.