Advances in Proto Basque Reconstruction With Evidence for the Proto - Indo European Euskarian Hypothesi

Informationen zum Autor Juliette Blevins is Full Professor in the Linguistics Program at The Graduate Center! The City University of New York! USA! where she is Director of the Endangered Language Initiative. Her main research interests are sound patterns and sound change! with a special focus on phonological typology! as detailed in her influential book?Evolutionary Phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Zusammenfassung This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, highlighting a distinct focus on previously underappreciated alternations and asymmetries in sound distribution, employing the comparative method to reveal sound correspondences in basic vocabulary between Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Reconstruction of Proto-Basque Introduction to Part I 1. Basque and Proto-Basque 2. The Proto-Basque Vowel System 3. A revised Proto-Basque Consonant System 4. Proto-Basque Phonotactics 5. Proto-Basque Stress and accent 6. Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction Part II: Comparison of Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo European Introduction to Part II 7. Results of the comparative method 8. Statistical Evidence for Relatedness 9. Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European Historical Phonology 10. Potential Implications for Indo-European Linguistics Appendix: Proto-Basque reconstructions with Proto-Indo-European comparisons References Proto-Basque Index/ Proto-Indo-European Index/ Basque Index

Product details

• Authors: Juliette Blevins, Blevins Juliette
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138584600
• ISBN: 978-1-138-58460-0
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Phonetics, phonology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics