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Originally Posted by CHOMAT  There is a link indeed ,a link between genetics and linguistics. the peoples moved , settled , were scattered and left traces of their passage( isoglosses, distribution). |
But a group of people can abandon one language and start speaking another, for instance Celtic speakers in England stopped speaking Celtic languages and starting speaking English. A genetic connection is not proof of a linguistic connection.
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Originally Posted by CHOMAT M.MORVAN and his team within the CNRS in France are debunking this fatalistic view and brushed away -by means of serious comparative tenets -the most extravagant and unfounded theories which have been unfavourable to the study of Euskara. |
If we can't find evidence linking Basque to other languages, how is that unfavourable to the study of Basque? It's simply a fact. It doesn't mean Basque is unworthy of being studied. I believe that Basque's ergativity is being studied in conjunction with ergativity in other languages, for instance.
If you do manage to link Basque with say northeast Caucasian languages using the comparative method, that would cool. Good luck.