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Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction with Evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis

Juliette Blevins
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Basque
Basque Words
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Cognate Roots
Cognate Sets
comparative method linguistics
CVC Root
Disyllabic Roots
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genetic links between language families
historical linguistics
Indo-European Studies
Inflectional Paradigms
Internal Reconstruction
Juliette Blevins
language change
language evolution
language family relationships
Lexical Accent
Modern Basque
Modern Language
Oral Stops
phonetics
phonological typology
phonology
Pie Phonology
Proto-Basque
Proto-Indo European Reconstructions
Proto-Indo European Roots
Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian hypothesis
Regular Sound Change
Regular Sound Correspondences
Root Final Position
sC Cluster
Sound Change
sound change analysis
Sound Correspondences
Sound Symbolic Words
sT Clusters
Voiceless Aspirated
Voiceless Unaspirated Stops
Vowel Reduction

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138584600
  • Weight: 657g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Aug 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of historical linguistics. Building on a long tradition of Basque scholarship, the comparative method and internal reconstruction, informed by the phonetic bases of sound change and phonological typology, are used to explain previously underappreciated alternations and asymmetries in Basque sound patterns, resulting in a radically new view of the proto-language. The comparative method is then used to compare this new Proto-Basque with Proto-Indo-European, revealing regular sound correspondences in basic vocabulary and grammatical formatives. Evaluation of these results supports a distant genetic relationship between Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European, and offers new insights into specific linguistic properties of these two ancient languages. This comprehensive volume, which includes a detailed appendix including Proto-Basque/Proto-Indo-European cognate sets, will be of general interest to linguists, archeologists, historians, and geneticists, and of particular interest to scholars in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, language change, and Basque and Indo-European studies.

Errata for the book can be found at: https://julietteblevins.ws.gc.cuny.edu/proto-basque/
About Juliette Blevins
Juliette Blevins is Full Professor in the Linguistics Program at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA, where she is Director of the Endangered Language Initiative. Her main research interests are sound patterns and sound change, with a special focus on phonological typology, as detailed in her influential book　Evolutionary Phonology: The emergence of sound patterns.

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