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Standardisation of Basque: From grammar (1968) to pronunciation (1998)
(De Gruyter, 2016)
This paper deals with the standardisation of the Basque language. Standardisation will be here understood as the codification of a linguistic variety accepted by the majority of speakers as a common form of the language. ...
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 ...
PPs without Disguises: Reply to Bruening
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012-08)
[EN]Bresnan and Nikitina (2009) and Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2008) show that, contrary to standard assumptions, fixed-theme idioms may
appear in to-constructions under certain pragmatic circumstances. Bruening (2010a) ...
Eppur non si muove: Experimental evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis and distinct ɸ-feature processing in Basque
(Ubiquity Press, 2019-11)
The Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH) has been extensively studied in linguistics, but, to date, it has not been tested by means of ERPs. The present study aimed to experimentally test the UH hypothesis in Basque and determine ...
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 ...
The translation habitus of contemporary basque writers
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015)
Basque writers have many ways of approaching translation: some Basque writers are selftranslators, while others prefer professional translators to translate their work; some Basque writers work as professional translators, ...
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 ...
Basque translation in the structure of Basque literary historiographies
(UAB, 2017)
In this paper, our source for the study of the representations of translation has been historiographies of Basque literature. There have been several reasons for this choice: firstly, in this type of work other works tend ...
A new view of Basque through eighteenth-century correspondence
(John Benjamins, 2015)
This contribution deals with a recently discovered Basque correspondence which poses new research questions. The letters, written in Labourdin dialect in 1757, provide insight into the practice of writing, depicting an ...
The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories
(Walter de Gruyter, 2012)
The aim of this article is to criticize some claims that have been made forBasque definite and indefinite articles within certain theories of contact.It will become clear that contact played a crucial role in the evolutionof ...