TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE BASQUE LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Editors' Foreword -- Note on Basque orthography -- Abbreviations -- The Basque Country and the Basque Language: An overview of the external history of the Basque language -- 0. Brief introductory notes -- 1. The long prehistory of Basque -- 2. The 16th and 17th centuries -- 3 . The 18th and 19th centuries -- 4. 1876-1936 -- 5. The postwar period -- REFERENCES -- The Basque Language and Its Neighbors in Antiquity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aquitania -- 3. Hispania -- REFERENCES -- Origin and Relatives of the Basque Language: Review of the evidence -- 0. Introduction * -- 1. 'Old European' -- 2. Indo-European -- 3 . Iberian -- 4. Minoan, Etruscan, Pictish, Sumerian -- 5. Caucasian -- 6. Aquitanian -- 7. African languages -- 8. Basque and the Macro-families -- 9. Summary and Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- The Ancient Basque Consonants* -- REFERENCES -- The Latin and Romance Element in Basque* -- 0. Preface -- REFERENCES -- Reconstructing the Ancient Basque Accentual System: Hypotheses and evidence -- 0. Introduction* -- 1. Martinet's and Michelena's hypotheses -- 2. On the evolution of the modern-day accentual systems -- 3. Vowel deletion in compounds -- REFERENCES -- Reconstructing the Pre-Proto-Basque Root -- 0. Introduction* -- 1. The size of the root in Basque -- 2. Root-level constraints -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- On the History of the Non-Finite Verb Forms in Basque -- 0. Introduction* -- 1. The prefix *e- and the four verb classes -- 2. The function of the prefix *e- -- 3. The origin of the perfective participle -- 4. The gerund -- 5. The verbs in -ki and -tsi. -- 6. Summary -- REFERENCES -- On the Origin of the Finite Forms of the Basque Verb -- 0. Introduction* -- 1. Analytical and synthetic forms -- 2. Agreement and valency.

3. Origin of the person agreement markers -- 4. Some remarks on tense -- 5. On Ergative Displacement -- 6. On the formation of the Basque verbal complex -- REFERENCES -- The Development of the Basque System of Terms of Address and the Allocutive Conjugation -- 1. Terms of address in Basque: Present-day situation -- 2. The development of the system of forms of address -- 3. The development of the allocutive conjugation -- 4. The diachronic sequencing of the various forms of allocutivity -- 5. Hypotheses on the development of the Basque system of forms of address -- 6. The use of forms of address in Basque: Past, present, and future -- REFERENCES -- "Nunc" in Old Basque -- 0. Introduction: The problem * -- 1. A first look at the solution -- 2. On the terminative case -raino -- 3. An etymology for -danik -- 4 . The locative form -- 5. A verbal prefix -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Weak and Strong Genitive Pronouns in Northern Basque: A diachronic perspective -- 0. Introduction* -- 1. Modern Northern Basque pronouns -- 2. Classical Labourdin (1600-1650) -- 3. Post-Classical Labourdin (1650-1750) -- 4. The Eastern dialects, 16th and 17th centuries -- 5. Further questions and conclusions -- REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.