Famous work by Manuel de Larramendi published under the title El Imposible Vencido. Arte de la Lengua Vascongada, printed in Salamanca in 1729.
Its name responds to the general belief that Basque had neither rules nor grammar. Larramendi undertook the task of unravelling the rules of the Basque language in order to offer them to his detractors. And he succeeded in his endeavour, coming out successful and triumphant, by putting into print the first printed Grammar of Basque, in a certain way, complete and exact, even making an incursion into the dialectal peculiarities of Biscayan and Laburdine. Of course, his Grammar, like all those of his time, follows the Greek and Latin models: declensions and conjugations, syntax and prosody. His work obviously caused astonishment and his real or supposed enemies fell silent.
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