A New Strategy for Modeling Feature Lineages in Indo-European Languages: Assessing the Value of Basque as a Tool for Interpreting European Prehistory

This plenary presentation, given at ProtoLang 6 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 9-13 September, 2019, is called “A New Strategy for Modeling Feature Lineages in Indo-European Languages”. In it I assess the value of the Basque language as a tool for interpreting European prehistory. I highly recommend that this 2019 Power Point be viewed in conjunction with another presentation from 2017 that is also available on my Academia page, namely, the talk I gave called “A multidisciplinary approach to modeling expansions from the Franco-Cantabrian refugium”. That was an invited presentation at the Session “Beyond Simplistic Narratives: Can Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics Go Together?” at the European Archaeologists Association (EAA) 23rd Meeting held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 30 August – 3 September, 2017.