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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 ...
Is Basque an Agglutinative Language? A Proposal for the Diachrony of Nominal Morphology
(University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009)
The title of this paper is reminiscent of de Rijk’s (1969) “Is Basque an SOV language?”. This SOV pattern, together with agglutination and ergativity are maybe the most characteristic features of Basque, or at least the ...
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. ...