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Tables of Contents for The History of Basque
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
x
1
List of tables
xi
2
Preface
xiii
3
Acknowledgements
xvi
2
List of abbreviations
xviii
2
A note on citation forms
xx
1 Introduction
1
81
1.1 The Basque language: territory, speakers, dialects
1
6
1.2 The country, the people and their history
7
28
1.3 An external history of the language
35
14
1.4 Linguistic works on Basque
49
21
1.5 Reference books
70
5
1.6 Basque orthography
75
4
1.7 The standard language
79
3
2 A thumbnail sketch of the language
82
42
2.1 Preliminaries
82
1
2.2 Phonology
83
6
2.3 Noun phrases, the case system and postpositions
89
10
2.4 Adjectives and adverbs
99
1
2.5 The suffix-ko
100
2
2.6 Non-finite verb-forms
102
1
2.7 Finite verb-forms
103
6
2.8 Sentence structure
109
2
2.9 Valency and voice
111
3
2.10 Subordinate clauses
114
2
2.11 A typological checklist
116
8
3 Phonology
124
72
3.1 Preliminaries
124
1
3.2 The Pre-Basque phonological system
125
4
3.3 Plosives
129
7
3.4 Sibilants
136
3
3.5 Nasals
139
3
3.6 Laterals
142
2
3.7 Rhotics
144
2
3.8 Palatalization
146
3
3.9 Vowels
149
6
3.10 Glides
155
2
3.11 Aspiration
157
6
3.12 Consonant clusters
163
1
3.13 Word-accent
164
2
3.14 Summary of phonological changes
166
3
3.15 Treatment of loan words from Latin and early Romance
169
3
3.16 The phonotactics of Pre-Basque
172
4
3.17 Morpheme structure
176
3
3.18 The problem of the initial vowels
179
4
3.19 Distinctive phonology of word-formation
183
9
3.20 Phonological pecularities of proper names
192
2
3.21 Phonological treatment of recent loans
194
2
4 Grammar
196
52
4.1 Pronouns, demonstratives and the articles
196
5
4.2 The cases
201
7
4.3 Postpositions and grammatical words
208
2
4.4 Adjectives and adverbs
210
1
4.5 Non-finite verb-forms
211
7
4.6 Finite verb-forms: agreement and plurality
218
5
4.7 Finite verb-forms: tense and mood
223
4
4.8 Dative flags
227
2
4.9 Voice and valency
229
3
4.10 The auxiliaries
232
2
4.11 The allocutive forms
234
3
4.12 Periphrastic forms
237
1
4.13 Aspectual and modal auxiliaries
238
1
4.14 Linschmann's law
239
1
4.15 The complementizers
240
1
4.16 The suffix -ko
241
1
4.17 The question particles
242
1
4.18 Parts of speech
242
2
4.19 The genitive with the gerund
244
1
4.20 A speculative synthesis
245
3
5 Lexicon
248
10
5.1 The sources of the Basque vocabulary
248
2
5.2 Compounds
250
2
5.3 Derivatives
252
3
5.4 Ancient Formatives
255
1
5.5 Sound symbolism
256
3
5.6 Loans from Latin and Romance
259
3
5.7 Loans from other sources
262
1
5.8 Neologisms
263
4
5.9 Structured parts of the lexicon
267
53
5.10 Individual words of particular interest
320
9
5.11 Place names
329
10
5.12 Surnames
339
6
5.13 Given names
345
4
5.14 House names
349
3
5.15 The Swadesh word-list
352
6
6 Connections with other languages
358
72
6.1 Preliminaries
358
1
6.2 African languages
361
3
6.3 The `Old European' substrate
364
3
6.4 Indo-European
368
10
6.5 Iberian
378
10
6.6 Minoan
388
2
6.7 Pictish
390
2
6.8 Caucasian
392
6
6.9 Aquitanian
398
5
6.10 Basque and the super-families
403
5
6.11 Basque and `Proto-World'
408
3
6.12 Summary
411
4
6.13 The alleged influence upon Castilian Spanish
415
15
References
430
17
Index
447