Gogoetak XVIII. mendeko euskalaritzaren inguruan

Abstract

This paper is intended as a general introduction to some of the Basque linguistic ideas and thoughts of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. First the relationship with XVII-XVIIIth century European linguistics is considered. At the time information about the variety of natural languages had spread out in Europe. The author also tries to account for some of the notions inherited from the Basque apologists: tubalism, systematic explanation of toponimes by means of Basque, etc. Finally the value of some vascologists (especially Larramendi and Astarloa) who overcame simple apologism in a significant way is recognized.