Product Description: This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological system of Basque available in English. Basque is a morphologically rich and fairly regular language with a number of active phonological rules that are limited to certain morphological environments...read more

Product Description: In part due to its exotic place within the languages of Europe, but mainly because of its basic typological differences with better-described languages, Basque has often attracted the interest of linguistis of very different theoretical persuasions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Providing a history of the Basque language, this work discusses the Latin and romance element in Basque, ancient Basque consonants, pronouns in Northern Basque, and the origins and relatives of the Basque language.

Product Description: Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students. Using clear explanations, it covers all the basic concepts required to study the structural aspects of the Spanish language - phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax - as well as the history of Spanish, its dialects and linguistic variation...read more

Product Description: As the only surviving pre-Indo-European language of western Europe, Basque has often attracted the interest of linguistics. This book brings together an accumulated knowledge from a new generation of linguists on the structure of the Basque language...read more

Product Description: This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish, designed specifically for English-speaking students of the language. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America...read more

Product Description: This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, which was held in June 2004 at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...read more

Product Description: Among the languages of Europe spoken by bilingual communities, Catalan has a special status because of its vitality. Catalan enjoys official recognition in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, in spain and in the principality of Andorra...read more