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Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
Edited by Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina
[Language Faculty and Beyond 13] 2016
► pp. 15–36

On Basque dialects

| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This chapter offers an overview of geographical variation in Basque. After discussing several proposals for the classification of Basque dialects, the main phenomena showing dialectal variation are introduced. Variation in morphosyntactic features, nominal inflection, verbal inflection, derivational morphology and phonology are discussed in separate sections. Two additional sections are devoted to the historical development of Basque dialects and to the nature of the written regional standards known as “literary” dialects.

Keywords: Basque dialects, dialectal classification, dialectology, isoglosses, morpho-syntactic variation, phonological variation
Published online: 9 September 2016
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