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PPs without Disguises: Reply to Bruening
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012-08)
[EN]Bresnan and Nikitina (2009) and Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2008) show that, contrary to standard assumptions, fixed-theme idioms may
appear in to-constructions under certain pragmatic circumstances. Bruening (2010a) ...
Synchronic ubiquity of the Basque article -a: A look from diachrony
(John Benjamins, 2012-06-20)
The Basque definite article -a is used in more contexts than the articles in neighboring languages. This extensive use is problematic for synchronic analysis; this article will offer a diachronic perspective of the problem. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Basque nominalizations and the role of structural Case in the licensing of null arguments
(John Benjamins, 2012)
[EN] This article investigates the question of the licensing of null arguments in the so-called pro-drop languages. By focusing on the licensing of null subjects in the different types of -T(Z)E nominalizations in Basque, ...