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Materiales vascos del legado de Wilhelm von Humboldt: la relevancia de Astarloa y el Plan de Lenguas
(Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia & UPV/EHUren Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)[EN] Although Astarloa’s Plan de Lenguas remains lost, a copy of a fragment of the manuscript was found among the papers of the Humboldt legacy. In this article the history of Plan de Lenguas is delineated, and then we ... -
Perifrasi zaharra mendebalde eta erdialdeko euskara zaharrean: azterketa kuantifikatiboa eta proposamen berria
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In the history of the occidental and central dialects of Basque, the verbal periphrases composed by the verbal stem / or the participle and the auxiliaries *edin, *ezan, egin have undergone a change in the form of their ... -
The complementary distribution between pro and lexical subjects
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)This paper presents an account of one of the problems regarding the distribution of controlled subjects: the complementary distribution between PRO and lexical DPs. The growing evidence showing that both types of subjects ... -
Adjectives and proper nouns in romance and english
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)My contribution examines some problems raised by adjectival restrictive modification of proper nouns. I begin with a contrast between the way in which this modification is achieved in English and in Romance, particularly ... -
Argument structure and morphology: the case of "en"-prefixation revisited
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this paper I argue that en-prefixed words in Catalan and English (e.g. amorN 'love' ' [[en+amor]V+ar]V 'to make someone fall in love'; nobleA ' [en+noble]V are not exceptions to the Right-hand Head Rule (RHR; Williams ... -
Phase theory, case and relative clauses
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The goal of this paper is to put forward an analysis of relative clauses which builds on Pesetsky and Torrego's (2001) proposal concerning the C-T connection and the nature of Case. In so doing, a unitary answer to two ... -
Argument-mapping and extration
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this paper, I propose a unified account for argument-mapping and islandhood in the verbal domain, while casting new light on the notion external argument, as well as the interaction of Case and argument-mapping.I argue ... -
Sobre la historia de la literatura vasca: diagnóstico y perspectivas
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The purpose of this article is to examine Basque literary historiography and determine the priorities that it should establish for the future. The author begins with observations on the important role linguist Koldo Mitxelena ... -
A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The semantic status of so-called n-words in Negative Concord languages has been under considerable debate. This paper takes a new perspective on this problem by bringing Negative Concord together with two different phenomena ... -
A look at a second language learnes' task motivation
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this study, part of a larger project, I explore a) the possible relationship between task motivation as operationalized in Dörnyei's Process model of motivation and linguistic variables in a written production task, and ... -
Complements and adjuncts in machine translation
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)A significant number of natural language processing applications cannot work without syntactic parsing. The automatic syntactic analysis of natural language texts in turn requires an efficient method for differentiating ... -
Types of syncretism in the clitic systems of romance
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this paper I will discuss the hypothesis according to which every clitic system bears an elsewhere item, i.e., a non-specific clitic that can be inserted when the insertion of more specific items is blocked by independent ... -
Prenominal and postnominal demonstratives in spanish: [+- deictic] approach
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this paper I propose an explanation for the difference in meaning and in structure between the prenominal and the postnominal demonstratives in Spanish, and its complimentary distribution with the article in prenominal ... -
How strong islands are derived from the way a top-down derivation is linearized
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The goal of this paper is to show that strong islands can be derived from the way derivation is linearized, as long as we assume that the derivation proceeds in a topdown fashion.To begin with, I will present one advantage ... -
Aspects of quotative constructions in Iberian Spanish
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Consequences of pair-merge (at the interfaces)
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The goal of this paper is to explore the basic properties of adjuncts and some of the well-known puzzles these dependents pose for syntactic theorizing within the scenario provided by the Minimalist Program (cf. Chomsky ... -
On the interaction of velars and labials
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The paper treats data from a wide range of languages to show, on the one hand, that there is pervasive direct interaction between labials and velars to the exclusion of coronals, and, on the other hand, that the drive ... -
Adjectival passives and adjectival decausatives in Hebrew
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The distinction between adjectival passives and verbal passives is a very well known one. In this paper, I try to define the operation that forms adjectival passives in Hebrew. I claim that a close look at Hebrew adjectival ... -
The acquisition of basque ergative case: an experimental study
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)Basque children omit ergative case markers for about five months before the production of this case mark becomes adult-like. This has been considered a problem in the acquisition of Basque and has been related to the ... -
The structure of pair-list answers
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)...