Tratar el espacio cultural vasco-aquitano durante la Antigüedad requiere una gran humildad. Afortunadamente, la inmensa obra investigadora de Joaquín Gorrochategui ha abierto nuevas vías para ampliar nuestro conocimiento ...

Basque ‘Noun + egin’ (‘make’) expressions display striking properties for the Grammar of Basque: They have ‘defective’ morpho-syntax and semantics, involve discourse opacity, lack scope relations, and show a highly constrained ...

In this paper I consider the chronology of the oldest identifiable loanwords that Spanish and other Ibero-Romance languages appear to have taken from Basque. The dating of these loanwords is somewhat more certain when they ...

As Mitxelena demonstrated, the left-hand side of words is the hardest to reconstruct;amongst the best well-known of these, moreover, b- is one of the most problematic initials on account of its multiple changes and losses ...

Among the founding factors for modernism in philology/linguistics, there were two important medial innovations as a consequence of industrialization: new printing technologies and the installation of a general mail system. ...

The present paper deals with one of the Basque relativization strategies: the zein relative, in which an interrogative pronoun, usually zein ‘which’, heads the subordinate clause. The goal is to analyze its use in the 16th ...

En este trabajo se trata de exponer los datos antroponímicos aquitanos en una disposición intergeneracional, esto es, indicando todas las secuencias de parentesco entre padre y/o madre e individuo deducibles en las ...

Oikonymy is the field of onomastics which explores house names. This article discusses how house names in the Roncal Valley were collected and what kind of methodological and ethical criteria guided the work of collecting ...

The question of how many language families there are in the world is addressed here. The reasons for why it has been so difficult to answer this question are explored. The answer arrived at here is 406 independent language ...

This study provides a typological analysis of two phenomena related to case-marking in Basque. In both of them, animacy -or the distinction between what is animate and what is not- turns out to be determinant: we discuss ...