The genitive marking of transitive objects (TOGEN) in nominalized clauses has been described in northern varieties of Basque. It has traditionally been one of the features used to demonstrate that Basque syntax is accusative ...

Los trabajos publicados hasta la fecha han dejado de lado un componente del sistema verbal del vascuence: el auxiliar *iron. Muy delimitado tanto geográfica como funcionalmente, este verbo se documenta históricamente en ...

This paper deals with the realisation of the prospective participle, the most common way to express the future in Basque. The authors start from present-day variation, as synthesised by the Royal Academy of the Basque ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though all languages are able to convey hopes and desires, only some among them have a specific verbal inflection for this purpose, the optative mood. Up to now, every grammatical description of Souletin Basque (Eastern ...