%0 Journal Article %T NON-INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES IN MODERN LANGUAGE GROUPINGS IN EUROPE (SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING METHODOLOGY AND CRITERIA IN EUROLINGUISTICS) %A Stachowski, Marek %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2015 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.15.005.3491 %N Volume 132, Issue 3 %P 107-117 %K Eurolinguistics, methodology of linguistics, linguistic league, areal linguistics, Standard Average European %@ 1897-1059 %D 2016 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/non-indo-european-languages-in-modern-language-groupings-in-europe-some-questions-concerning-methodology-and-criteria-in-eurolinguistics %X Although it is easy to fathom why Eurolinguistic research tends to concern what is called Standard Average European (see Haspelmath 2001) rather than peripheral non-Indo-European languages of Europe this author’s opinion is that a closer look precisely at the latter makes the linguistic picture of Europe more interesting, more true and more complex. At the same time a few methodological questions arise. Some of them are presented and (partially) discussed in this study.