Slavic Lingua Franca

Here's a link to an article by Florin Curta about the development of the Slavic language. Florin is an archaeologist/historian from Romania who now works at an unnamed university in that unnamed state to our south. I spent a day with him once showing him around the High Country. He thought the Appalachians at Banner Elk reminded him of the Carpathians.

Once or twice I have seen him at conferences surrounded by a crowd of scholars who are anxious to talk to him. He has made a name for himself in his field. He has remarkable language skills. He told me he'd learned English by listening to American and English rock music. How he also learned Russian, Polish, German, Italian, Greek, Magyar, etc., he did not say.

But here is the article that I want to read as soon as possible.