A Grammar of Basque

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.

About the author

Jose Ignacio Hualde is Professor at the University of Illinois, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Jon Ortiz de Urbina is Professor at the University of Deusto, Spain.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jos¿gnacio Hualde (Editor), Jose I. Hualde (Editor), José I. Hualde (Editor), José Ignacio Hualde (Editor), Jos Ignacio Hualde (Editor), José Ignacio Hualde (Editor), Ortiz de Urbina (Editor), Ortiz de Urbina (Editor), Jon Ortiz De Urbina (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783110176834
• ISBN: 978-3-11-017683-4
• No. of pages: 943
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 75 mm
• Weight: 1910 g
• Illustrations: 32 b/w ill., 153 tab.
• Series: Mouton Grammar Library; Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]; Mouton Grammar Library; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures