Basque and its Closest Relatives : : A New Paradigm /

Basque and its Closest Relatives : : A New Paradigm / / John Bengtson.

This book is a comprehensive and detailed treatment of the Euskaro-Caucasian hypothesis – the proposal that the Basque language is most closely related to the North Caucasian language family. A more or less similar hypothesis was developed in the twentieth century by prominent scholars, including C....

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Bengtson, John,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Foreword
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. Exercise 1: An Experiment in Classification (Taxonomy)
  • II. Exercise 2: A Different Approach
  • III. Dialects of Basque
  • IV. Basque Phonology in Euskaro-Caucasian Perspective
  • V. Basque Morphology in Euskaro-Caucasian Perspective
  • VI. North Caucasian Phonology in Euskaro-Caucasian Perspective
  • VII. Euskaro-Caucasian Comparative Phonology I: Introduction
  • VIII. Euskaro-Caucasian Comparative Phonology II: Vowels
  • IX. Euskaro-Caucasian Comparative Phonology III: Consonants
  • X. Euskaro-Caucasian Comparative Phonology IV: “Irregular” Phonetic Changes: Metathesis, Haplology, Assimilation, Dissimilation, Expressive Forms, Contamination and Blending
  • XI. Euskaro-Caucasian Comparative Phonology V: Some Special Etymological Problems
  • XII. Euskaro-Caucasian Etymologies: Introduction
  • XIII. Euskaro-Caucasian Etymologies A: Anatomical Terms
  • XIV. Euskaro-Caucasian: Genetic Linguistics, Archaeology, and Human Genetics
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Guide to Phonetic Transcriptions
  • Appendix A: Rosters of the most historically stable lexicon
  • Appendix B: The Position of Kartvelian
  • Appendix C: A Discussion of the Lexicostatistical Study by Tovar, et al. (1961)
  • Index I: Basque to English
  • Index II: English (semantic)
  • About the Author

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