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On The Nature Of Clitics And Their Sensitivity To Number Attraction Effects
(Frontiers Media SA, 2017-09-05)
Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like ...
Evaluative Adjectives as a Window onto Inner-Aspect
(2017-05-23)
This thesis proposes that Evaluative Adjectives (EAs) (brave, intelligent, rude) are stative causative predicates that undergo the causative alternation just as many verbs do (break). It is argued that EAs syntactic and ...
Differential object marking and datives in basque syntax
(2017-05-26)
Doktore tesi honen helburu nagusia zenbait euskal hizkeratan gertatzen den Osagarrien Markatpen Bereizgarria (Differential Object Marking, DOM) aztertzea da. Ikerketa lan honek DOM osagarrien izaera sintaktikoa argitzea ...
Syntactic structure and modal interpretation: the case of basque "behar"
(2018-03-09)
This dissertation is an investigation of the syntactic structure and modal interpretation of clauses involving the denominal necessity predicate behar `need¿ and an infinitival complement. On the one hand, it analyses the ...
Relative clause production in Basque-Spanish bilinguals with aphasia: material testing in a control group
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del país Vasco, 2014)
Research on the comprehesion of relative clauses (RCs) in participants with agrammatism has revealed that although this population encounters difficulties with momevent-derived constructions in general, subject relatives ...
Euskararen sintaxi diakronikorantz: egitura konplexuak 2
(2017-12-18)
Tesi honen helburua da euskararen sintaxi diakronikoari ekarpena egitea. Bi gai hauek dira analisien ardatz: (1) izenaren eta modifikatzaileen arteko hitz-ordena: perpaus erlatiboetan, -ko atzizkiarekin eta genitiboarekin, ...
The Derivation of Dative Alternations
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010)
[EN]This paper argues for an updated version of the classical derivational approach to Double Object Constructions (DOCs) and parallel dative construction across languages. We extensively argue that the arguments to postulate ...
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) ...
On Basque Non-finite Verbal Forms: Historical Morphology and the Beginnings of the Periphrastic Verb
(Peter Lang AG, 2013)
In this chapter I shall focus on the history of Basque analytic verbs, their different parts and how they are combined. Each section will take present-day data as a starting point to describe the historical evolution of ...
The translation habitus of contemporary basque writers
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015)
Basque writers have many ways of approaching translation: some Basque writers are selftranslators, while others prefer professional translators to translate their work; some Basque writers work as professional translators, ...