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(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 ...
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, ...
Propositional Content and Communication: An Act-based Approach
(2023-11-06)
Esta tesis tiene como objetivo principal ofrecer un nuevo modelo de la comunicación lingüística humana. Para ello, se parte de la hipótesis de que la naturaleza de las proposiciones, las entidades que juegan el rol del ...
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 ...