{"product_id":"standard-basque-isbn-9780262546546","title":"Standard Basque","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.Map of the Basque Country xvi\u003cbr\u003eForeword (Pello Salaburu) xvii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments (Virginia de Rijk-Chan) xxiii\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Orthography and Pronunciation: the Basque Noun Phrase 1\u003cbr\u003e2 More about the Basque Noun Phrase 25\u003cbr\u003e3 The System of Locative Case Endings 49\u003cbr\u003e4 The Synatx of Location Nouns 69\u003cbr\u003e5 The Grammar of Adnominal Forms 89\u003cbr\u003e6 Personal Pronouns: Synthetic Conjugation of Intransitive Verbs 111\u003cbr\u003e7 Periphrastic Conjugatlion of Intransitive Verbs 135\u003cbr\u003e8 Modal Particles; Topic; Focus and Constituent Order 161\u003cbr\u003e9 Synthetic Present of Transitive Verbs; Ergativity; Demonstratives 187\u003cbr\u003e10 Synthetic Past of Transitive Verbs; Universal Quantifiers 213\u003cbr\u003e11 Adverbs of Manner and Degree 233\u003cbr\u003e12 Transitivity 259\u003cbr\u003e13 The Partitive; the Verb \u003ci\u003eegin\u003c\/i\u003e and Its Complements; \u003ci\u003egabe \u003c\/i\u003e289\u003cbr\u003e14 Object Complements of \u003ci\u003e*edun; \u003c\/i\u003eModal Verbs 317\u003cbr\u003e15 Dative Agreement; Reflexives and Reciprocals 343\u003cbr\u003e16 Causatives and Gerundives 375\u003cbr\u003e17 Conditionals; the Prolative 413\u003cbr\u003e18 Direct and Indirect Questions; Finite Complement Clauses 439\u003cbr\u003e19 Relative Clauses 471\u003cbr\u003e20 Time Adverbials 509\u003cbr\u003e21 The Subjunctive 547\u003cbr\u003e22 Imperatives and Jussives 569\u003cbr\u003e23 Causal, Explanatory, and Concessive Clauses 599\u003cbr\u003e24 Expressing Potentiality 635\u003cbr\u003e25 Complex Predicates; Transitive Predication and Predicatives 671\u003cbr\u003e26 Comparatives 699\u003cbr\u003e27 Use of the Instrumental Case 737\u003cbr\u003eThe Unfinished Chapters 779\u003cbr\u003e28 Indefinite Pronouns and Related Matters; the Synthetic Future Tense 781\u003cbr\u003e29 Allocutive Verb Forms and Their Use; Nonfinite Sentential Complements 809\u003cbr\u003e30 Coordination 829\u003cbr\u003e31 Compounds 853\u003cbr\u003e32 Reduplication; Parasuffixes, Prefixes, and Paraprefixes 877\u003cbr\u003e33 Additional Derivational Suffixes 897\u003cbr\u003eKey to the Exercises 925\u003cbr\u003eVocabulary 953\u003cbr\u003eA. Basque-English 953\u003cbr\u003eB. English-Basque 981\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 995\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations 995\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Biblical Sources 995\u003cbr\u003eA. References 996\u003cbr\u003eB. Sources 1002Rudolf 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.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302867292389,"sku":"NP9780262546546","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546546.jpg?v=1767737166","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/standard-basque-isbn-9780262546546","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}