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Author:   Rudolf P.G. De Rijk
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Volume:   44
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.905kg
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9780262546546

ISBN 10:   026254654
Pages:   1408
Publication Date:   29 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Map of the Basque Country xvi Foreword (Pello Salaburu) xvii Acknowledgments (Virginia de Rijk-Chan) xxiii 1 Introduction: Orthography and Pronunciation: the Basque Noun Phrase 1 2 More about the Basque Noun Phrase 25 3 The System of Locative Case Endings 49 4 The Synatx of Location Nouns 69 5 The Grammar of Adnominal Forms 89 6 Personal Pronouns: Synthetic Conjugation of Intransitive Verbs 111 7 Periphrastic Conjugatlion of Intransitive Verbs 135 8 Modal Particles; Topic; Focus and Constituent Order 161 9 Synthetic Present of Transitive Verbs; Ergativity; Demonstratives 187 10 Synthetic Past of Transitive Verbs; Universal Quantifiers 213 11 Adverbs of Manner and Degree 233 12 Transitivity 259 13 The Partitive; the Verb egin and Its Complements; gabe 289 14 Object Complements of *edun; Modal Verbs 317 15 Dative Agreement; Reflexives and Reciprocals 343 16 Causatives and Gerundives 375 17 Conditionals; the Prolative 413 18 Direct and Indirect Questions; Finite Complement Clauses 439 19 Relative Clauses 471 20 Time Adverbials 509 21 The Subjunctive 547 22 Imperatives and Jussives 569 23 Causal, Explanatory, and Concessive Clauses 599 24 Expressing Potentiality 635 25 Complex Predicates; Transitive Predication and Predicatives 671 26 Comparatives 699 27 Use of the Instrumental Case 737 The Unfinished Chapters 779 28 Indefinite Pronouns and Related Matters; the Synthetic Future Tense 781 29 Allocutive Verb Forms and Their Use; Nonfinite Sentential Complements 809 30 Coordination 829 31 Compounds 853 32 Reduplication; Parasuffixes, Prefixes, and Paraprefixes 877 33 Additional Derivational Suffixes 897 Key to the Exercises 925 Vocabulary 953 A. Basque-English 953 B. English-Basque 981 Bibliography 995 Abbreviations 995 A Note on the Biblical Sources 995 A. References 996 B. Sources 1002

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Rudolf 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.

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