A Grammar Of Basque (mouton Grammar Library) (english And German Edition)
by José Ignacio Hualde /
2003 / English / PDF
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As the only surviving pre-Indo-European language of western Europe,
Basque has often attracted the interest of linguists. Whereas,
traditionally, descriptive work on Basque has primarily focused on
morphological features, including its complex system of
verb-argument agreement and its strict ergative pattern of
inflection, during the last two decades a new generation of Basque
linguists has produced very sophisticated, theoretically-informed
work on many aspects of the syntax, morphology and phonology of the
language, revealing, for instance, a process of focalization with
many interesting properties and the existence in some dialects of
an accentual system strikingly similar to that of standard
Japanese. The book, bringing together this accumulated knowledge on
the structure of Basque, is considerably more complete than any
other existing grammar of the language. Another interesting feature
of this grammar is that the description is illustrated with
fully-glossed examples extracted from a great number of written
sources. Although the focus is the modern standard language,
dialectal features are considered in detail and examples are taken
from all dialects and periods.
As the only surviving pre-Indo-European language of western Europe,
Basque has often attracted the interest of linguists. Whereas,
traditionally, descriptive work on Basque has primarily focused on
morphological features, including its complex system of
verb-argument agreement and its strict ergative pattern of
inflection, during the last two decades a new generation of Basque
linguists has produced very sophisticated, theoretically-informed
work on many aspects of the syntax, morphology and phonology of the
language, revealing, for instance, a process of focalization with
many interesting properties and the existence in some dialects of
an accentual system strikingly similar to that of standard
Japanese. The book, bringing together this accumulated knowledge on
the structure of Basque, is considerably more complete than any
other existing grammar of the language. Another interesting feature
of this grammar is that the description is illustrated with
fully-glossed examples extracted from a great number of written
sources. Although the focus is the modern standard language,
dialectal features are considered in detail and examples are taken
from all dialects and periods.
