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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 ...
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 ...