On Forni’s Basque-Indo-European Hypothesis
Kassian A.
The Journal of Indo-European Studies 41/1-2, 2013. P. 181-201.
G. Forni’s paper in the present issue of JIES represents one of numerous attempts to extend the IE linguistic family at the expense of various genealogically isolated languages of Eurasia. Among the most recent similar publications, one can mention A. Fournet & A. R. Bomhard’s Hurrian-IE hypothesis (see Fournet & Bomhard 2010 with the criticism by Kassian 2010, 2011 1 ) and I. Çasule’s Burushaski-IE hypothesis (see Çasule 1998, 2003, 2012 with the criticism by Bengtson 2000, Bengtson & Blazek 2011, 2012)
G. Forni’s paper in the present issue of JIES represents one of numerous attempts to extend the IE linguistic family at the expense of various genealogically isolated languages of Eurasia. Among the most recent similar publications, one can mention A. Fournet & A. R. Bomhard’s Hurrian-IE hypothesis (see Fournet & Bomhard 2010 with the criticism by Kassian 2010, 2011 1 ) and I. Çasule’s Burushaski-IE hypothesis (see Çasule 1998, 2003, 2012 with the criticism by Bengtson 2000, Bengtson & Blazek 2011, 2012)