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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 ...
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 ...