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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 ...
Resultatives in Basque: A Diachronic Study
(The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, 2012)
This paper deals with several aspects of the diachrony of Basque resultative constructions. In present day Basque, resultatives can be used with perfect-like meaning. The goal of this paper has been thus to study the ...
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 ...
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, ...