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Person matters in impersonality
(Wiley, 2022-05-04)
The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article ...
Datives with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2020-09-02)
This paper explores the formal expression of two Basque dative argument types in combination with psych nouns and adjectives, in intransitive and transitive clauses: (i) those that express the experiencer, and (ii) those ...
Basque impersonals in comparison
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2022)
The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction that resembles middles, passives and impersonals. In this construction, the thematic object is the grammatical subject, which bears absolutive case and triggers ...
La casa del padre en ruinas. La narrativa de Karmele Jaio
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-06-20)
This article will analyze the thematic and poetic axes that govern Karmele Jaio’s literary universe, with special focus on narrative production formed by three books of short stories—Hamabost zauri (2004; Heridas crónicas, ...
A cross-linguistic study of emphatic negative coordination
(John Benjamins, 2021-12-09)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed cross-linguistic analysis of so-called emphatic negative coordination (enc). This kind of clause linkage is illustrated by neither and nor in She neither could nor would ...
Cualquier tiempo pasado fue peor. Reflexiones sobre la narrativa vasca post-ETA
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2019)
En las líneas que siguen, trataremos de reflexionar en torno a las consecuencias que el cese de la actividad armada de ETA ha tenido
en el panorama de la novela en lengua vasca. Para ello, y antes de abordar la lectura y ...
Grammaticalization of nouns meaning “head” into reflexive markers: A cross-linguistic study
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2018-10-17)
Studies on the grammaticalization of body-part nouns into reflexives have often formulated cross-linguistic generalizations, but have mostly failed to provide detailed analyses of similar developments attested in ...
Grammaticalization of reflexivity in Basque: A corpus-based diachronic and typological analysis (draft version)
(John Benjamins, 2020-05-25)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of the changes undergone by the reflexive buru-construction in Basque under the light of grammaticalization theory. On the basis of quantitative historical data, ...
The word order of negation in the history of Basque: A linguistic and sociolinguistic approach
(John Benjamins, 2021-02-01)
This article investigates word order changes in negated periphrastic constructions in the history of Basque. A number of linguistic variables are argued to correlate with these changes: the negative particle ez is increasingly ...
Functional Heads and eventive nominals: the Basque perspective
(University of Lublin, 2023-07-07)
This article shows that Basque has a few suffixes (-era, -keta, -pen) which give rise to the type of
eventive nominals described in the literature (Grimshaw; Picallo; Alexiadou, Functional Structure).
Nominals headed by ...