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Ramón Zallo offers us with this informative book an overall synthesis of Basque culture, society and history. Thanks to its contents it may be destined to become a road map for understanding some keys about the country of the Basques. The author starts from a broad concept of Basque culture which, while it is not very well known, is proportionally very rich for such a small country. He conceives it as a whole culture and as having a history of its own, although it is very closely related to its surroundings. And its trajectory indicates the need to prioritize its development and singularity in this global world full of uncertainty. In Part One he traces (and vindicates) the cultural and spa...
The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received comparatively less attention. Using compelling empirical evidence, this cutting-edge study presents a new linguistic theory of imperatives.
"This work traces the meaning of identity in the Basque Country of France between the late eighteenth century and the present, including French state-building efforts in promoting a French national identity, attempts to encourage French and Basque sentiment, and the emergence of Basque nationalism with its emphasis on a Basque national identity"--Provided by publisher.
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This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be based on a close interplay of grammatical and discourse-related forces. The topics range from the transition of linguistic signs “out of” sentence grammar and “into” the domain of discourse to differences between more grammatical vs. more discourse-pragmatic expressions in terms of structural behavior and cognitive processing, and the different, intricate ways in which the usage conditions and meanings of grammatical constituents or structural units are affected by the discourse context in which they are used. The twelve studies in this book are based on fresh empirical data from languages such as English, Basque, Korean, Japanese and French and involve the study of linguistic expressions and structures such as pragmatic markers and particles, comment clauses, expletives, adverbial connectors, and expressives.
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
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Ramón Zallo nous propose à cette occasion un livre de divulgation et de synthèse globale sur la culture, la société et l’histoire basques. Son contenu le prédispose à se convertir en une feuille de route permettant de mieux comprendre certaines particularités du pays des basques. L’auteur part d’un concept large de culture basque, assez méconnue et pourtant proportionnellement très riche pour un si petit pays. Il la conçoit comme une culture intégrale avec une histoire propre, bien que très rattachée à son environnement. De son parcours, il déduit la nécessité d’un pari stratégique pour son développement et sa singularité dans un monde global et plein d’incerti...
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