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10 - Derivational Patterns in Proto-Basque Word Structure

from Part II - Structure of Complex Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Juliette Blevins
Edited by
Lívia Körtvélyessy  and
Pavol Štekauer
Lívia Körtvélyessy
Affiliation:
P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
Pavol Štekauer
Affiliation:
P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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Summary

Blevins (2018) 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. One aspect of this new reconstuction involves word-internal structural elements unrecognized in previous work. This paper builds on the derivational patterns hypothesized for Proto-Basque in Blevins (2018), focusing on the following formatives: root-extension *-r; acategorial *s-; nominalizating *-s; nominal *ha-; and collective *hi-. Under this analysis, lexemes may have the maximally complex structure.

Keywords

Proto-BasqueEuskarianderivationmorphologyreconstruction*s-mobile
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Complex Words
Advances in Morphology
 , pp. 175 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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