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Early bilingualism as a source of morphonological rules for the adaptation of loanwords: Spanish loanwords in Basque
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)
[EN] The present socio-cultural situation in the Basque speaking area of Spain offers a privileged field for the study of Spanish loanwords in Basque, due to the more expanded use of Basque, together with a better knowledge ...
The Derivation of Dative Alternations
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010)
[EN]This paper argues for an updated version of the classical derivational approach to Double Object Constructions (DOCs) and parallel dative construction across languages. We extensively argue that the arguments to postulate ...
On Basque Non-finite Verbal Forms: Historical Morphology and the Beginnings of the Periphrastic Verb
(Peter Lang AG, 2013)
In this chapter I shall focus on the history of Basque analytic verbs, their different parts and how they are combined. Each section will take present-day data as a starting point to describe the historical evolution of ...
Le Dauphin project: a micro-corpus of correspondence in Lapurdian Basque of 1757
(Peter Lang, 2015)
As a result of a recent discovery, in this contribution the author presents the project of design of a micro-corpus of Basque correspondence of the 18th century. This little corpus reflects the language state of Lapurdian ...
Synchronic ubiquity of the Basque article -a: A look from diachrony
(John Benjamins, 2012-06-20)
The Basque definite article -a is used in more contexts than the articles in neighboring languages. This extensive use is problematic for synchronic analysis; this article will offer a diachronic perspective of the problem. ...
(Il)literacy and language change: Non-standard relative constructions in historical Basque
(John Benjamins, 2021-06-16)
In this paper we examine a corpus of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Basque private letters and administration documents from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. Because of the diglossic situation, such texts are ...
A note on the complementizer -ela and the long-distance licensing of NPIs in Navarro-Labourdin Basque
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Serbitzua, 2019)
This article presents ample evidence from written texts that the Basque Navarro-Labourdin dialect, which lacks a contrast between the complementizers -ela and -enik in declarative sentences¸ uses the first one
in ...
Derivational networks in Basque
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2020)
Basque nominalizations and the role of structural Case in the licensing of null arguments
(John Benjamins, 2012)
[EN] This article investigates the question of the licensing of null arguments in the so-called pro-drop languages. By focusing on the licensing of null subjects in the different types of -T(Z)E nominalizations in Basque, ...
Kirmen Uribe and Translation: An endless journey.
(Center for Basque Studies, 2022)
Assuming that Kirmen Uribe is a social agent in the sub- field of Basque literature in translation, this work analyses the translator’s translation habitus, basing its analysis on the sociological foundations of translation. ...