A Grammar of BasqueJosé Ignacio Hualde, Jon Ortiz de Urbina 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. |
Contents
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3 Morphology | 113 |
32 Case and number inflection of noun phrases JI Hualde | 171 |
33 Postpositions JI Hualde | 187 |
416 Possessive constructions | 414 |
417 Verbs of saying thinking and judging | 422 |
copulative sentences and secondary predication I Zabala | 426 |
43 Word order J Ortiz de Urbina | 448 |
44 Focalization R Etxepare J Ortiz de Urbina | 459 |
45 Negation R Etxepare | 516 |
46 Exclamatives R Etxepare | 564 |
47 Impersonal clauses J Ortiz de Urbina | 572 |
34 Adverbs JI Hualde | 190 |
35 Verbs JI Hualde B Oyharçabal and J Ortiz de Urbina | 195 |
351 Nonfinite forms JI Hualde | 196 |
352 Finite forms | 205 |
353 Structural analysis of basic verbal paradigms JI Hualde | 246 |
354 Tense aspect and mood B Oyharçabal | 249 |
355 Periphrastic constructions J Ortiz de Urbina | 284 |
356 Semiauxiliary verbs J Ortiz de Urbina | 300 |
357 Modal particles | 316 |
36 Conjunctions and connectors JI Hualde | 323 |
37 Derivation JI Hualde | 328 |
38 Compounds JI Hualde | 351 |
4 Syntax | 363 |
412 Intransitive monovalent structures | 364 |
413 Intransitive Bivalent Structures dativeabsolutive constructions | 385 |
414 Transitive Structures | 388 |
415 Ditransitive Structures | 411 |
48 Causatives J Ortiz de Urbina | 592 |
49 Reciprocal and reflexive constructions X Artiagoitia | 607 |
410 Subordination X Artiagoitia B Oyharçabal JI Hualde J Ortiz de Urbina | 632 |
4101 Complementation noun clauses X Artiagoitia | 634 |
4102 Adjunct subordination X Artiagoitia | 710 |
4103 Relatives B Oyharçabal | 762 |
4104 Comparative constructions JI Hualde J Ortiz de Urbina | 823 |
411 Coordination I Amundarain | 844 |
5 Texts | 893 |
52 Text 2 | 897 |
53 Text 3 | 903 |
54 Text 4 | 906 |
55 Text 5 | 912 |
Sources of examples | 915 |
References | 922 |
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