BackBrowsing Volumen 41 (2007) by Title
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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 ... -
Aditz jokatugabea eta eta enklitikoa
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this article, an analysis and description is carried out of the non-finite verbal Basque forms compatible with the clitic eta. The description shows prosodic and semantic 'features together with grammatical ones ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Aspects of quotative constructions in Iberian Spanish
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Case marking and prepositional marking: some remarks concerning "de"-phrases in Romanian
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this paper, we analyze two types of nominal constructions in Romanian: DPs morphologically marked for Genitive and complex DE-phrases. The two types of construction are alike insofar as they involve a relation (which ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Consumer Eroski parallel corpus
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)This paper introduces the Consumer Eroski Parallel Corpus, a collection of articles originally written in Spanish and later translated to three languages also spoken in Spain: Basque, Catalan and Galician. The articles ... -
Edouard Bourciezen haur prodigoaren parabola: edizio paleografiko konparatua
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)We report some mistakes found in the transcription of the French original text published together with the Basque translations in Gotzon Aurrekoetxea and Xarles Videgain's Haur Prodigoaren Parabola Ipar Euskal Herriko 150 ... -
Extracting information from participial structures
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)Our applied linguistic research aims at increasing the efficiency of a rule-based information extraction (IE) system by enhancing it with further grammatical knowledge. The input of the IE system is made up of sentences ... -
H1 gisako urruntasun luzeko NZ-galderen jabekuntza haur euskaldun batengan
Gutiérrez Mangado, María Juncal
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
In this article we present data from the first language (L1) acquisition of Long-distance (LD) wh-questions. The subject's age at the begining of the experiment was 5;1. The main aim of the investigation was to examine the ... -
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 ... -
Imotz, Basaburu Nagusia, Larraun eta Araitz-Betelu ibarretako lexikoaren azterketa
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)In this study we have analysed the lexical characteristics of the Basque language that is spoken in the North West Nafarroa's four valleys: Imo-tz, Basaburu Nagusia, Larraun and Arai-tz-Betelu. Our main objective is to ... -
Materiales vascos del legado de Wilhelm von Humboldt (III): Pablo Pedro de Astarloa y Aguirre: Plan de lenguas o Gramatica bascongada en el dialecto bizcaíno (fragmento)
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)The existence of the Plan de Lenguas has been a widely discussed mystery in the history of Basque. We have mostly indirect knowledge about it from contemporaries and from the first curator of Astarloa's legacy (J. B. Erro), ... -
Materiales vascos del legado de Wilhelm von Humboldt: la relevancia de Astarloa y el Plan de Lenguas
Gómez López, Ricardo; Hurch, Bernhard; Kerejeta, María José (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 ... -
Negative polarity licensing, factivity and the CP field
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