The oral ballad Urthubiako Alhaba was published by Julien Vinson in 1884, from an original manuscript. The text, which could date back to a c. 1830 recitation, was considered unauthentic by Vinson, an opinion that has ...

This article deals with the nature and the importance of the syllable in linguistic studies, especially in phonological ones. The article holds that the syllable is a fundamental linguistic unit. The structuring of the ...

The diachronic correspondence -n- ' -h- is one of the typologically most marked phono'logical developments of the Basque language. Nevertheless, the plausibility of such an evolution is guaranteed by a particular articulatory ...

From a typological perspective, the diachronic correspondence -n- ' -h- is perhaps the most marked development in the phonological history of the Basque language. The examples of such a process of sound change are extremely ...

One of the few fragments that have been conserved from the Basque medieval epic is the Cantar de Sandailia. Documents in the Municipal Archives in Mondragón confirm the historicity of the events it narrates and to date ...

In this note to Cid's work, we recall the existence of a certain construction in a ballad called "Urthubiako Alhaba". This NP-coordination construction (X-ekin/-gaz Y = X eta Y [X-with Y = X and Y]) is extremely rare in ...

At the Bibliotèque Nationale de Paris, in the volume V of the Poésies popularies de la France, Fond français, nauvelles acquisitions, number 3.342, there is a Basque text written by Jean Baptiste Archu; together with this ...

At the beginning of the 18th century, printed Basque lexicographic compilations were scarce. That state of affairs made Fréret create his own Vocabulaire Basque (ca. 1714) by comparing the basque translation of the New ...

Campbell and Poser offer what is probably the most accurate and balanced discussion on the issue, i.e. genealogy in linguistics. Authors make use of the research done with well known language families, already with a ...