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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...