Darrigolen gramatikaz
ISSN: 0582-6152
Year of publication: 2003
Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Pages: 139-156
Type: Article
More publications in: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology
Abstract
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 the Basque language, whose clear antecedents can be found in the French general grammar of a rationalistic orientation (e.g., Girard, Du Marsais, Beauzée...). Within that perspective, he presents (or retakes) proposals such as the existence of the indefinite as a separate number, a case system which is conceived as different from the Latin model, the idea that there are only two real verbs (niz �to be� and dut �to have�), and the typological implications of combining a freer word order together with the existence of declension in the language, among others.