Eduardo Blasco Ferrer Bücher

This manual will be an indispensable research tool for everyone interested in the Sardinian language and in Romance linguistics in general. It presents the first extensive overview of the various questions and problems of Sardinian linguistics. In addition to a detailed introduction to the socio-historical background of the current linguistic situation in Sardinia, it provides diachronic and synchronic descriptions both of the varieties of Sardinian itself and of the other idioms spoken on the island.

For scholars, paleo-Sardinian still presents many unanswered questions. This study illuminates for the first time the linguistic identity of the original inhabitants of the island by means of a systematic and structured analysis of field names in the archaic central area of Sardinia. Through a thorough comparison of the identified place name structures with respective lexicon entries of paleo-Basque and paleo-Iberian, the author can substantiate his hypothesis of an immigration from the ancient Iberian peninsula to Sardinia dating back to the Mesolithic period and the entire Neolithic period.