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Sprachtypologie und Sprachvergleich: Baskisch

• Syllabus.
  
  
• Week 1 (October 20, 2009):
  • Handout I: Historical and social aspects
  • Handout II: Phonetics and orthography.
  • Exercises
    
    
• Week 2 (October 27, 2009):
  • Handout: Segmental phonology.
  • Exercises.
  
  
• Week 3 (November 3, 2009):
  • Handout: Prosody.
  • Exercises
  
  
• Week 4: (November 10, 2009):
  • Handout: Basic morphosyntax of the Basque noun phrase.
  • No homework this week
  
  
• Week 5: (November 17, 2009):
  • Handout: More on the Basque noun phrase: quantification.
    This handout covers selected parts of chapters 2 and 3 of Etxeberria 2005 (linked below).
  • Exercises.
  • Etxeberria, Urtzi. 2005. Quantification and domain restriction in Basque. Doctoral dissertation, University of the Basque Country.
    • Table of contents and abstract.
    • Chapter 1: Introduction to Basque quantifiers.
    • Chapter 2: Contextually restricted quantification.
    • Chapter 3: Weak quantifiers and unrestricted quantification.
    • Chapter 4: The Basque definite article.
    • Chapter 5: Concluding remarks.
    • Bibliography.
  
  
• Week 6: (November 24, 2009):
  • Handout: The Basque definite article -a
    This handout covers selected parts of chapter 4 of Etxeberria's 2005 (see previous week).
  • Exercises: no homework this week.
  
  
• Week 7: (December 1, 2009):
  • Handout: Basic morphosyntax of the Basque verbal system.
  • Exercises: see last page of the handout.
  
  
• Week 8: (December 8, 2009):
  • Handout: Morphosyntax of inflection
    This lecture is based on parts of: Arregi, Karlos. 2002. Person and number inflection in Basque. Ms., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Exercises: see the last page of the handout. If you find it difficult to solve it, you can consult this table, where:
    • Nor = Absolutive verbs.
    • Nor-nori = Absolutive-dative verbs.
    • Nor-nork = Absolutive-ergative verbs.
    • Nor-nori-nork = Absolutive-dative-ergative verbs.
  
  
• Week 9 (December 15, 2009):
  • Handout: More on the morphosyntax of inflection: agreement displacement.
    This lecture is based on parts of chapter 2 of Rezac 2004 (linked below).
  • Rezac, Milan. 2004.