[EN] This paper examines the syntactic ideas of Pablo Pedro Astarloa (1752-1806) as he explained in his Discursos filosóficos sobre la lengua primitiva (1805), and tries to put them in the context of the debate between ...

[EN] Pierre Urte wrote Grammaire cantabrique circa 1714, when he was exiled in England. In this article we want to prove that the main source for Urte’s work was the socalled “Lily’s grammar”, which was the oficial grammar ...

[EN] This paper attempts to summarize what is currently known about the History of Basque Linguistics. The first section tries to explain what is precisely meant by the term “euskalaritza" (Bascology) and proposes a ...

[EN] The aim of this paper is to propose some lines of investigation and new methods that can be followed in order to increase our knowledge of the History of Basque Linguistics. The main claim put forward here is that we ...

[EN] This paper explores a lesser-known aspect of Basque linguist Pablo Astarloa, namely, his contribution as grammarian. Astarloa is better known for his hypothesis that Basque language was humankind’s first language and, ...

[EN] This article presents the main grammatical ideas expressed by Jean-Pierre Darrigol (1790-1829) in his Dissertation critique et apologétique sur la langue basque. Darrigol's starting point is a logicistic analysis of ...

Astarloa's Discursos filosóficos is the most extensive and detailed apology of the Basque language as the first language of mankind. The text was finished in 1805 but the first edition was published in 1883. In this paper ...

[EN] In this paper I offer a new edition of the Euskera manuscript, written by the bascologist J.F. Aizkibel in 1856. The preliminary study focuses on a survey of the sources extensively used by Aizkibel, which are mainly ...

[EN] In this paper I try to explain how the so called "theory of the only verb" was formulated and used by several Basque grammarians in the 19th century. That theory was first coined by the authors of the Grammaire génerale ...

[EN] A brief history of the Basque grammatical works written in the 17th and 18th centuries.