PUBLICATIONS OF R. L. TRASK
Max Wheeler
(University of Sussex)
Books
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A textbook of syntax, University of Sussex Cognitive Science Research Report
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A dictionary of grammatical terms in linguistics, London: Routledge.
Language change, London: Routledge.
Towards a history of the Basque language, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, [co-edited
with J. I. Hualde and J. A. Lakarra].
Language: The basics, London: Routledge; 2nd edition, 1999.
A dictionary of phonetics and phonology, London: Routledge, [Chinese edition
2000].
Historical linguistics, London: Edward Arnold.
A student’s dictionary of language and linguistics, London: Edward Arnold.
The Penguin guide to punctuation, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
The history of Basque, London: Routledge.
Key concepts in language and linguistics, London: Routledge; new edition ed.
P. Stockwell, Language and linguistics: The key concepts, London: Routledge,
fc. 2007.
Language: The basics, ed. with notes [in Japanese] by K. Ohasa & R. Broadway,
Tokyo: Shohukusha.
A dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics, Edinburgh U.P.
Historical linguistics [with Chinese introduction], Foreign Languages Teaching and
Research Press.
Introducing linguistics, Cambridge: Icon Books [with B. Mayblin].
The Penguin dictionary of English grammar, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Time depth in historical linguistics Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research [co-edited with C. Renfrew & A. M. S. McMahon].
Mind the gaffe: The Penguin guide to common errors in English, Harmondsworth:
Penguin.
Dicionário de Linguagem e Lingüística [tr. of Key concepts in language and linguistics] / Tradução e adaptação de R. Ilari. Revisão Técnica de I. Villaça Koch e
Th. Cristófaro Silva. São Paulo: Contexto.
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2005. How to write effective emails, London: Penguin.
1995. Temeljni lingvisticki pojmovi [tr. of Key concepts in language and linguistics], Zagreb:
Skolska Knjiga.
2005. Say what you mean: A troubleshooter’s guide to English style and usage. Boston:
D. R. Godine.
2006. Lingüística para todos [tr. of Introducing linguistics], Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica Ediciones [with B. Mayblin].
PhD dissertation
1977.
Synchronic and diachronic studies in the grammar of Basque, London, School of
Oriental and African Studies, 1983
Articles
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“Historical syntax and Basque verbal morphology: two hypotheses”, in W. A. Douglass, R. W. Etulain and W. H. Jacobsen (eds.), Anglo-American contributions
to Basque studies: Essays in honor of Jon Bilbao, Reno: Desert Research Institute Publications on the Social Sciences No. 13, pp. 203-17.
“Basque: Western Low Navarrese Dialect”, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 8: 75-79.
“On the origins of ergativity”, in F. Plank (ed.), Ergativity: Towards a theory of
grammatical relations, Academic Press, pp. 385-404.
“Basque verbal morphology”, in [no editor] Iker-1: Euskalarien Nazioarteko Jardunaldiak, Bilbao: Euskaltzaindia, pp. 285-304.
“Euskal izen sintagmaren egituraz” [“On the structure of the noun phrase in Basque”], in [no editor] Iker-2: Piarres Lafitte-ri Omenaldia, Bilbao: Euskaltzaindia, pp. 599-611.
“On the reconstruction of pre-Basque phonology”, in J. L. Melena (ed.), Symbolae
Ludovico Mitxelena Septuagenario Oblatae, Vitoria-Gasteiz: Instituto de
Ciencias de la Antigüedad, Universidad del País Vasco/Aintzinate-Zientzien
Institutua, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea, vol. 2, pp. 885-91.
“The Basque passive: a correct description”, Linguistics 23.6[280]: 985-91.
“-ko atzizkia euskaraz” [“The suffix -ko in Basque”], Euskera 30: 165-73.
“Accusativity in Basque: reply to Bossong”, Linguistics 25.2[288]: 395-401 [with
J. Abaitua].
“El ‘vascorrománico’”, Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía 15: 361-73 [with
R. Wright].
“Why the Basque transitive verb is not passive”, University of Sussex Cognitive
Science Research Report 137.
“The -n class of verbs in Basque”, Transactions of the Philological Society 88:
111-28.
“Basque”, in J. E. Asher (ed.), The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, vol. 1,
pp. 313-14, Oxford: Pergamon.
PUBLICATIONS OF R. L. TRASK
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“Origin and relatives of the Basque language: review of the evidence”, in J. I. Hualde, J. A. Lakarra and R. L. Trask (eds.), Towards a history of the Basque language, John Benjamins, pp. 65-99 [Basque translation by Txipi Ormaetxea:
“Euskararen etorki eta ahaideak: datuen analisia”, in Uztaro 26: 81-108].
“On the history of the non-finite verb-forms in Basque”, in J. I. Hualde, J. A. Lakarra and R. L. Trask (eds.), Towards a history of the Basque language, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 207-34.
“Basque and Dene-Caucasian: A critique from the Basque side”, Mother Tongue 1
(new series): 3-82, accompanied by comments from twelve discussants
(pp. 83-171) and a response by R. L. Trask (pp. 172-201).
“Basque: The search for relatives”, part I, Dhumbadji! 2(1): 3-54, 1994-95; part II,
Dhumbadji! 2(2): 3-18.
“Guide to punctuation”, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of
Sussex <http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/doc/punctuation/node00.html>.
“The typological position of Basque: then and now”, Language Sciences 20.3: 313-24.
L. Trask, Ph. Tobias, Th. Wynn, I. Davidson, W. Noble & P. Mellars, “The Origins
of Speech”, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8.1: 69-94.
“Why should a language have any relatives?”, in Colin Renfrew & Daniel Nettle
(eds.), Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily, Cambridge: McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 157-76.
“Parts of speech”, in K. Brown & J. Miller (eds.), Concise encyclopedia of grammatical categories, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 278-84.
“Some issues in relative chronology”, in C. Renfrew, A. McMahon & L. Trask
(eds.), Time depth in historical linguistics, Cambridge: McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research, pp. 45-58.
“Concluding remarks”, in C. Renfrew, A. McMahon & L. Trask (eds.), Time
Depth in Historical Linguistics, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 679-81 [with April McMahon].
“On typologically strange reconstructions: the case of pre-Basque”, in A. Holmer,
J-O. Svantesson & Å. Viberg (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian
Conference of Linguistics, volume 1, Lund: Lund University Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics, pp. 11-35.
“Basque”, in J. Garry, and C. Rubino (eds.). Facts about the World's languages: An
encyclopedia of the world's major languages: Past and present, New York/ Dublin: H. W. Wilson Press.
“Ergativity and accusativity in Basque”, in K. Davidse & B. Lamiroy (eds.), The
nominative & accusative and their counterparts, Amsterdam: Benjamins,
pp. 265-84.
“The Noun Phrase: nouns, determiners and modifiers; pronouns and names”, in
J. I. Hualde & J. Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), A grammar of Basque, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 113-71.
“Where do mama/papa words come from” (LxWP10/04), Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Sussex. <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/
linguistics/1-4-5.html>.
“What is a word?” (LxWP11/04), Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Sussex. <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/1-4-5.html>.
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“Parts of speech” (LxWP11/04), Department of Linguistics and English Language,
University of Sussex. <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/1-4-5.html>.
“A new early source of Basque: the Willughby glossary of 1664”, Transactions of the
Philological Society 104.3: 331-93 [with R. Coates].
Reviews
D. Bickerton, Language and Human Behaviour (London, UCL 1996), reviewed in
Journal of Linguistics 35: 657-59.
2002. M. C. Baker, The atoms of language: The mind’s hidden rules of grammar (New York,
Basic Books 2001), reviewed in Human Nature Review 2: 77-81.
1999.