Standard Basque A Progressive Grammar

Name: Standard Basque A Progressive Grammar
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ISBN: 9780262042420

ISBN-10: 0262042428

ISBN-13: 9780262042420

Edition: 2007

Authors: Rudolf P. G. De Rijk

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A pre-Indo-European language with no known relatives, the Basque language survives in the Basque region of Spain and France, with about half a million native or near-native speakers. The local diversity of the language, with no fewer than eight different dialects, has hindered the development of a supradialectical written tradition. Twentieth-century Basque scholars recognized that the introduction of a standard language for written communication was vital for the continued existence of Basque, and the Euskaltzaindia,the Royal Academy of the Basque Language, has supervised the creation of a new shared form, Euskara Batua("Unified Basque"), to be used as a written standard. Standard Basque:…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1408
Size: 7.38" wide x 9.31" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 4.598



Map of the Basque Country


Foreword (Pello Salaburu)


Acknowledgments (Virginia de Rijk-Chan)



Introduction Orthography and Pronunciation the Basque Noun Phrase



More about the Basque Noun Phrase



The System of Locative Case Endings



The Syntax of Location Nouns



The Grammar of Adnominal Forms



Personal Pronouns Synthetic Conjugation of Intransitive Verbs



Periphrastic Conjugatlion of Intransitive Verbs



Modal Particles Topic Focus and Constituent Order



Synthetic Present of Transitive Verbs Ergativity Demonstratives



Synthetic Past of Transitive Verbs Universal Quantifiers



Adverbs of Manner and Degree



Transitivity



The Partitive the Verb egin and Its Complements gabe



Object Complements of *edun Modal Verbs



Dative Agreement Reflexives and Reciprocals



Causatives and Gerundives



Conditionals the Prolative



Direct and Indirect Questions Finite Complement Clauses



Relative Clauses



Time Adverbials



The Subjunctive



Imperatives and Jussives



Causal, Explanatory, and Concessive Clauses



Expressing Potentiality



Complex Predicates Transitive Predication and Predicatives



Comparatives



Use of the Instrumental Case


The Unfinished Chapters



Indefinite Pronouns and Related Matters the Synthetic Future Tense



Allocutive Verb Forms and Their Use Nonfinite Sentential Complements



Coordination



Compounds



Reduplication Parasuffixes, Prefixes, and Paraprefixes



Additional Derivational Suffixes


Key to the Exercises


Vocabulary



Basque-English



English-Basque


Bibliography


Abbreviations


A Note on the Biblical Sources



References



Sources