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What incentive (or obligation, for that matter) would the Socialist Party of France have for initiating such a referendum? The situation for Cameron was very different in so far as that for the Tories, the referendum on the UK's withdrawal from the EU was an election promise. In so far, you...

I'm very sceptical on the prospects of a "domino effect" in other member states. The situation in the UK was unique in so far as that the Cameron administration offered the referendum in the first place - as of the moment I do not see this happening in any other EU state. Additionally, I suspect...

Sparkey, I have to respectfully say that, although my assessment may come about as sensationalist, I do think my conclusion is indeed well-founded. The reasons are the following: [/LIST] This is true, but what about the implementation? The way I see it, there is no good option here. [/LIST]...

On the farcial events of the past days, I have to say this: in the referendum, the United Kingdom did not vote to leave the European Union, but to exit its own union, that is the Union of England and Scotland (1707). At least, that's the most likely result at this point, and buffoons like Nigel...

In my opinion, if we follow the Anatolian hypothesis (as originally layed out by Colin Renfrew) and tie the expansion of PIE into Europe with the expansion of agriculture (Renfrew's original postulate), in terms of Y-DNA, it becomes necessary to argue that the Proto-Indo-Europeans were...

Its not "laborious and curageous" as you claim it to be, this is well known for a long time. You have to consider the various sound laws (and in turn, regular sound correspondences) that are responsible for these. For English (a Germanic language), a key sound change is Grimm's Law, by which...

In linguistics, there is a concept called "wanderwort" (German for 'wandering word'), which refers to a word that was almost certainly borrowed, but its ultimate origin is sometimes opaque. The word for 'wine' (borrowed from Latin in all language families of northern Europe - i.e. Insular...

I find it more plausible to assume that the Rigveda was transmitted orally, simply because the Harappan script became extinct without any descendant scripts (in that way, you have a similarity to Linear B - even if we do not know what language was encoded by the script, or even what type of...

If you look at the relationship of the Indic languages inside the Indo-European languages, the out-of-India scenario makes absolutely no sense. The general agreement (it would be worthwhile that both Kurgan and Anatolian schools are in agreement here) is that the Anatolian language family...

There's also Latin "fiber" (PIE word-initial *bh- yields *f- in the Italic languages, see also English "brother" versus Latin "frater").

From my perspective, the migration scenario is a logical necessity that makes a lot of sense: if in the same areas where South Slavic and West Slavic were spoken by the Middle Ages were previously demonstrably non-Slavic in the Roman period, then the Slavic languages must have been introduced...

Many thanks for sharing this, Moesan, it definitely gave me a really good laugh! :laughing: I find it noteworthy that there's no regular correspondences with the supposed "slavic" forms whatsoever. They also readily ignore how names are actually spelled in classical sources: For example they...

That is funny, if the Scythians purportedly were not Eastern Iranic speakers, why is it then that not only the Greeks, but also the Persians and Han Chinese record them as having Iranic names?

Milan, the problem really is: you claim that Curta isn't South Slavic centric, but I will ask you: does his model explain - or predict - in any shape way or form where the West Slavic and East Slavic language areas come from? I give Curta credit in so far as that for the South Slavic peoples...

I didn't say Florin Curta did (though Mario Alinei does), but this is a question that came up in that past thread about the origin of the Slavs. In a way, this is a logical question to ask: if you place the Slavic homeland onto the Balkans, it would make sense looking for a historic candidate...

Mihaitzateo, I am sorry that I did not get around to write a reply earlier. But I also have a life and a job and because of this, am not around here as often as I would wish to. :good_job: In short: 1) I can generally recommend texts by Ranko Matasovic (who's at the same time also a decent...

Sorry, but with all respect, I did not ban you (four years ago, that is - no offense - a pretty long time to hold a grudge) for denying south slavic migration. I banned you for real life threatening the site owner, Maciamo. I think everybody can see what is wrong with that. I'm not a racist...

Who's a "real" German? :laughing: Considering that Germany as an actual nation state did not exist before the 1870s, and its forerunner, the Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) was a hodge-podge of states and ethnicities. Bavaria is hardly unique in having joined unified German state...

There was a similar thread, which also touched on Curta's position, around nine months ago, but I would like to pinpoint you to the following post of myself in particular: http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/31297-Slavic-homeland-and-ethnogenesis?p=460632&viewfull=1#post460632

One factor that you have to consider is the following: the Slavic languages are clearly part of the greater Indo-European language family, their position inside Indo-European is fairly obvious (most closely related with the Baltic languages), and there is plenty of evidence of its internal...