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OverviewThe first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two parts- Part 1 presents detailed grammar lessons, Part 2 glosses and supplementary materials. The first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two parts- Part 1 presents detailed grammar lessons, Part 2 glosses and supplementary materials. 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- A Progressive Grammar is the first modern pedagogically oriented reference grammar in English for this new standard language. It guides the reader progressively through 33 chapters covering topics that range from orthography and pronunciation to case endings, verb forms, ergativity, and the antipassive and allocutive forms. In addition to information on the various dialects, the book includes thousands of example sentences drawn from Basque literature and extensive vocabulary listings. Most chapters conclude with exercises. Part 1 covers the grammar and Part 2 contains glosses for the example sentences and indexes. This book was prepared for publication after the author's death by Virginia de Rijk-Chan with Armand De Coene and Fleur Veraart and the assistance of linguists at Cornell University, Leiden University, and the University of the Basque Country. The glosses and supplementary material in Part 2 were prepared by Armand De Coene. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rudolf P.G. De RijkPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Volume: 44 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.905kg ISBN: 9780262546546ISBN 10: 026254654 Pages: 1408 Publication Date: 29 November 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsMap of the Basque Country xvi Foreword (Pello Salaburu) xvii Acknowledgments (Virginia de Rijk-Chan) xxiii 1 Introduction: Orthography and Pronunciation: the Basque Noun Phrase 1 2 More about the Basque Noun Phrase 25 3 The System of Locative Case Endings 49 4 The Synatx of Location Nouns 69 5 The Grammar of Adnominal Forms 89 6 Personal Pronouns: Synthetic Conjugation of Intransitive Verbs 111 7 Periphrastic Conjugatlion of Intransitive Verbs 135 8 Modal Particles; Topic; Focus and Constituent Order 161 9 Synthetic Present of Transitive Verbs; Ergativity; Demonstratives 187 10 Synthetic Past of Transitive Verbs; Universal Quantifiers 213 11 Adverbs of Manner and Degree 233 12 Transitivity 259 13 The Partitive; the Verb egin and Its Complements; gabe 289 14 Object Complements of *edun; Modal Verbs 317 15 Dative Agreement; Reflexives and Reciprocals 343 16 Causatives and Gerundives 375 17 Conditionals; the Prolative 413 18 Direct and Indirect Questions; Finite Complement Clauses 439 19 Relative Clauses 471 20 Time Adverbials 509 21 The Subjunctive 547 22 Imperatives and Jussives 569 23 Causal, Explanatory, and Concessive Clauses 599 24 Expressing Potentiality 635 25 Complex Predicates; Transitive Predication and Predicatives 671 26 Comparatives 699 27 Use of the Instrumental Case 737 The Unfinished Chapters 779 28 Indefinite Pronouns and Related Matters; the Synthetic Future Tense 781 29 Allocutive Verb Forms and Their Use; Nonfinite Sentential Complements 809 30 Coordination 829 31 Compounds 853 32 Reduplication; Parasuffixes, Prefixes, and Paraprefixes 877 33 Additional Derivational Suffixes 897 Key to the Exercises 925 Vocabulary 953 A. Basque-English 953 B. English-Basque 981 Bibliography 995 Abbreviations 995 A Note on the Biblical Sources 995 A. References 996 B. Sources 1002ReviewsAuthor InformationRudolf P. G. de Rijk (1937-2003) brought the study of the Basque language into the generative syntax tradition with his MIT Ph.D. dissertation on Basque relative clauses in 1972. He taught at Leiden University in the Netherlands until his retirement in 2002. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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