Basque and Proto-Basque: Language-Internal and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Reconstruction: 5 (Mikroglottika: Minority Language Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631626495 ISBN 13: 9783631626498

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2013

Synopsis

This volume is an attempt to expound the current state of research into the past of the Basque language. This research has experienced two kinds of advance in recent years. First, more written records have been discovered, and the ones that we already knew have been more deeply studied. Second, since the 70s cross-linguistic typology has made huge progress in our knowledge of linguistic universals and grammaticalization paths. The purpose of this volume is precisely to provide an outline, comprehensible for Bascologists and diachronic typologists alike, of how these two aspects can help us to reconstruct, within the limits permitted by the principles of diachronic research, the main linguistic features of Common Basque (ca. 5th-6th cc. AD), Proto-Basque (ca. 3rd-1st cc. BC), and Pre-Proto-Basque.

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About the Author

Mikel Martínez-Areta is Assistant Professor of Basque Historical Linguistics and Basque Onomastics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and co-editor of the Study Series Mikroglottika. His research focuses on the historical morphology and syntax of Basque.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631626495
• ISBN 13: 9783631626498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 526
• Editor: Martínez Areta Mikel