Search
Now showing items 31-40 of 44
An investigation into the processing of unaccusativity and PHI-Features: evidence from native and non-native speakers of basque and spanish.
(2021-07-12)
Tesi honetan argumentu egitura, tasunak eta natibo/ez-natiboen prozesamendua jorratu ditut, eta horretarako zehaztasuna, erreakzio denborak eta garunaren aktibitatea neurtu ditut. Lehenik eta behin,Perlmutter-ek (1978) ...
The marking of spatial relations on animate nouns in Basque
(John Benjamins, 2022-03-14)
This corpus-based study examines the diachrony of differential place marking in Basque. In spatial cases, animate nouns in Basque exhibit heavier morphological forms than inanimate ones, but, under some circumstances, they ...
Authors and languages in a sociohistorical context: Basque religious literature in seventeenth-century France
(De Gruyter, 2020-11-13)
In this paper, we apply the methods of historical sociolinguistics to seventeenth-century religious literature in Basque. We explore issues related to macrosociolinguistics, and, in particular, the problem of contextualisation ...
Gender assignment strategies and L1 effects in the elicited production of mixed Spanish-Basque DPs
(John Benjamins, 2021-03-30)
This paper investigates the strategies involved in gender assignment in Spanish-Basque mixed Determiner Phrases (DPs) with a gendered Spanish determiner (el M /la F) and a Basque ungendered noun. Previous studies on ...
Sibilant mergers in 18th-century Basque: A quantitative study
(Linguistic Society of America, 2022-11-10)
Conservative Basque dialects distinguish apical and laminal alveolar sibilants in the fricative and affricate series. This paper analyses the changes this system was undergoing in the Central Basque variety of San Sebastián ...
(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 ...
Person matters in impersonality
(Wiley, 2022-05-04)
The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article ...
Datives with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2020-09-02)
This paper explores the formal expression of two Basque dative argument types in combination with psych nouns and adjectives, in intransitive and transitive clauses: (i) those that express the experiencer, and (ii) those ...
Basque impersonals in comparison
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2022)
The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction that resembles middles, passives and impersonals. In this construction, the thematic object is the grammatical subject, which bears absolutive case and triggers ...
A cross-linguistic study of emphatic negative coordination
(John Benjamins, 2021-12-09)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed cross-linguistic analysis of so-called emphatic negative coordination (enc). This kind of clause linkage is illustrated by neither and nor in She neither could nor would ...