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9780415131162
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Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known about the prehistory of the language, including pronunciation, the grammar and the vocabulary. It also provides a long critical evaluation of the search for its relatives, as well as a thumbnail sketch of the language, a summary of its typological features, an external history and an extensive bibliography
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; A note on citation forms; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The Basque language: territory, speakers, dialects; 1.2 The country, the people and their history; 1.3 An external history of the language; 1.4 Linguistic work on Basque; 1.5 Reference books; 1.5.1 Reference grammars; 1.5.2 Dictionaries; 1.5.3 Etymological dictionaries; 1.5.4 Other works; 1.6 Basque orthography; 1.7 The standard language; 2. A thumbnail sketch of the language; 2.1 Preliminaries
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2.2 Phonology2.2.1 Phoneme inventory; 2.2.2 Word-accent; 2.2.3 Phonotactics; 2.3 Noun phrases, the case system and postpositions; 2.3.1 The structure of noun phrases; 2.3.2 The cases; 2.3.3 Pronouns and demonstratives; 2.3.4 Postpositions; 2.4 Adjectives and adverbs; 2.5 The suffix -ko; 2.6 Non-finite verb forms; 2.7 Finite verb-forms; 2.8 Sentence structure; 2.9 Valency and voice; 2.10 Subordinate clauses; 2.11 A typological checklist; 2.11.1 Phonological properties; 2.11.2 Lexical properties; 2.11.3 Morphological properties; 2.11.4 Syntactic properties; 3. Phonology; 3.1 Preliminaries
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3.2 The Pre-Basque phonological system3.3 Plosives; 3.4 Sibilants; 3.5 Nasals; 3.6 Laterals; 3.7 Rhotics; 3.8 Palatalization; 3.9 Vowels; 3.10 Glides; 3.11 Aspiration; 3.12 Consonant clusters; 3.13 Word-accent; 3.14 Summary of phonological changes; 3.15 Treatment of loan words from Latin and early Romance; 3.16 The phonotactics of Pre-Basque; 3.17 Morpheme structure; 3.18 The problem of the initial vowels; 3.19 Distinctive phonology of word-formation; 3.19.1 First elements; 3.19.2 Second elements; 3.20 Phonological peculiarities of proper names; 3.21 Phonological treatment of recent loans
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4. Grammar4.1 Pronouns, demonstratives and the articles; 4.2 The cases; 4.3 Postpositions and grammatical words; 4.4 Adjectives and adverbs; 4.5 Non-finite verb-forms; 4.6 Finite verb-forms: agreement and plurality; 4.7 Finite verb-forms: tense and mood; 4.8 Dative flags; 4.9 Voice and valency; 4.10 The auxiliaries; 4.11 The allocutive forms; 4.12 Periphrastic forms; 4.13 Aspectual and modal auxiliaries; 4.14 Linschmann's law; 4.15 The complementizers; 4.16 The suffix -ko; 4.17 The question particles; 4.18 Parts of speech; 4.19 The genitive with the gerund; 4.20 A speculative synthesis
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5. Lexicon5.1 The sources of the Basque vocabulary; 5.2 Compounds; 5.3 Derivatives; 5.3.1 Word-forming suffixes; 5.3.2 Pseudo-suffixes; 5.3.3 Prefixes; 5.3.4 Pseudo-prefixes; 5.3.5 Sex-marking; 5.4 Ancient formatives; 5.5 Sound symbolism; 5.6 Loans from Latin and Romance; 5.7 Loans from other sources; 5.8 Neologisms; 5.9 Structured parts of the lexicon; 5.9.1 Colour terms; 5.9.2 Kinship terms; 5.9.3 Numerals; 5.9.4 Names of days and related words; 5.9.5 Names of the months and the seasons; 5.9.6 Body parts; 5.9.7 Tools and implements; 5.9.8 Compass points and hands
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5.9.9 Verbs of being and having
Additional Edition:
9781136167560
Additional Edition:
Print version The History of Basque
Language:
English
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