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

ISBN-13: 9781138584600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 426 str.

Juliette Blevins

Opis

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, highlighting a distinct focus on previously underappreciated alternations and asymmetries in sound distribution, employing the comparative method to reveal sound correspondences in basic vocabulary between Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European.

O autorze

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.