The History of Basque

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More than a century of specialist work has succeeded in shedding a great deal of light on the history and especially the prehistory of Basque, but this work has up until now been almost entirely confined to the specialist literature, and has not been available to general historical linguists. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, finally rectifies the problem. (I reuploaded the same PDF that was available before with an improved table of contents) Cover Contents Figures Tables Preface Acknowledgements 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 1.6 Basque orthography 1.7 The standard language 2. A thumbnail sketch of the language 2.1 Preliminaries 2.2 Phonology 2.3 Noun phrases, the case system and 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 3. Phonology 3.1 Preliminaries 3.2 The Pre-Basque phonological system 3.3 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 3.20 Phonological peculiarities of proper names 3.21 Phonolgical treatment of recent loans 4. Grammar 4.1 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 5. Lexicon 5.1 The sources of the Basque vocabulary 5.2 Compounds 5.3 Derivatives 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 5.10 Individual words of particular interest 5.11 Place names 5.12 Surnames 5.13 Given names 5.14 House names 5.15 The Swadesh word-list 6. Connections with other languages 6.1 Preliminaries 6.2 African languages 6.3 The 'Old European' substrate 6.4 Indo-European 6.5 Iberian 6.6 Minoan 6.7 Pictish 6.8 Caucasian 6.9 Aquitanian 6.10 Basque and the super-families 6.11 Basque and 'Proto-World' 6.12 Summary 6.13 The alleged influence upon Castilian Spanish References Index