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A pre-indo-european language
isolate in the Pyrenees (ISO 639-3: eus)
By Tarin A. Stefens
Language Background
Speakers: ~464,000
(Manandise 1988)
Syntax (cont.)
SOV/Scrambling/Free Word Order
(8) Ba-dakit.
ENC-know.PRS.3SG<1SG Only synthetic verb
‘I know.’
(Kortmann 2011)
Syntax (cont.)
Phrase Structure
(Kortmann 2011)
Syntax (cont.)
Phrase Structure
Phrasal/Syntagmatic Inflection
(15a) etxe-ak ‘houses’
(15b) etxe haundi-ak ‘big houses’
(15c) etxe haundi haiek ‘those big houses’
(Kortmann 2011)
Syntax (cont.)
Differences in Parts of Speech
Kortmann, B., & Auwera, J. V. D. (Eds.). (2011). The Languages and Linguistics of Europe : A Comprehensive Guide. Retrieved from
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
Manandise, E. (1988). Evidence from Basque for a new theory of grammar, New York: Garland Pub.
Simons, Gary F, and Charles D Fennig. “Basque.” Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Twenty-First Edition, SIL International,
www.ethnologue.com/language/eus.