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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 ...
Grammaticalization of nouns meaning “head” into reflexive markers: A cross-linguistic study
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2018-10-17)
Studies on the grammaticalization of body-part nouns into reflexives have often formulated cross-linguistic generalizations, but have mostly failed to provide detailed analyses of similar developments attested in ...
Grammaticalization of reflexivity in Basque: A corpus-based diachronic and typological analysis (draft version)
(John Benjamins, 2020-05-25)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of the changes undergone by the reflexive buru-construction in Basque under the light of grammaticalization theory. On the basis of quantitative historical data, ...
Propositional Content and Communication: An Act-based Approach
(2023-11-06)
Esta tesis tiene como objetivo principal ofrecer un nuevo modelo de la comunicación lingüística humana. Para ello, se parte de la hipótesis de que la naturaleza de las proposiciones, las entidades que juegan el rol del ...
The word order of negation in the history of Basque: A linguistic and sociolinguistic approach
(John Benjamins, 2021-02-01)
This article investigates word order changes in negated periphrastic constructions in the history of Basque. A number of linguistic variables are argued to correlate with these changes: the negative particle ez is increasingly ...
Development of nonliteral interpretations in typically developing Spanish speaking children: light verb constructions and figurative expressions
(Wiley, 2024-04)
In this paper we present a study about the typical development of the comprehension of expressions that exhibit an ambiguity between a literal and a nonliteral interpretation in Spanish, and whose most frequent use is ...
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 ...
The diachrony of the Basque marker bait-: from a manner expression to subordinator
(De Gruyter, 2024-03-20)
This article analyzes the diachrony of the Basque marker bait-, which is a verbal prefix in subordinate clauses, but also has other functions: for example, it appears in independent clauses and indefinite pronouns. In ...
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 ...
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. ...