Tag: Basque

Free Download In the Footsteps of Smugglers: My Life on a Basque Mountain by Georgina Howard
English | 17 July 2024 | ISBN: 1804692115 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 3.4 MB
After eight years living in Copenhagen, an English journalist, driven by a passion for languages and mountains, finally rebels. With little more than an assortment of Earl Grey teabags, Danish candles and a map, Georgina Howard abandons her all-too-cosy, cinnamon-scented lifestyle and drives south.

Free Download Catalina De Erauso, Michele Stepto, Gabriel Stepto, "Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0807070726, 0807070734 | EPUB | pages: 80 | 2.2 mb
Born in 1585, Catalina de Erauso led one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. Refusing to be regimented into the quiet habits of a nun’s life, she escaped from a Basque convent at age fourteen dressed as a man, and continuing her deception, ventured to Peru and Chile as a soldier in the Spanish army. After mistakenly killing her own brother in a duel, she roamed the Andean highlands, becoming a gambler and a killer, and always just evading the grasp of the law. Distinguished for her fighting skills and cursed with a quick temper, Catalina de Erauso spent much of her life balancing precariously between valor and villainy.

Free Download Towards a History of the Basque Language By José Ignacio Hualde; Joseba A. Lakarra; R.L. Trask
1996 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 9027236348 | PDF | 7 MB
Questions related to the origin and history of the Basque language spark considerable interest, since it is the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in western Europe. However, until now, there was no readily available source in English providing answers to these questions or giving an overview of past and current research in this area. This book is intended to partly fill this void.The book contains both state-of-the-art papers which summarize our knowledge about particular areas of Basque historical linguistics, and articles presenting new hypotheses and points of view based on hard evidence and careful analysis.All contributors to this volume have demonstrated expertise in the topic within Basque historical linguistics that their chapter addresses. Two classical articles by the late Luis Michelena are included in English translation. In addition, the book includes studies on diachronic phonology, morphology and syntax. The relation of Basque to other languages is also investigated in a couple of chapters.