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      Edouard Bourciezen haur prodigoaren parabola: edizio paleografiko konparatua 

      Santazilia, Ekaitz (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      We report some mistakes found in the transcription of the French original text published together with the Basque translations in Gotzon Aurrekoetxea and Xarles Videgain's Haur Prodigoaren Parabola Ipar Euskal Herriko 150 ...
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      Materiales vascos del legado de Wilhelm von Humboldt (III): Pablo Pedro de Astarloa y Aguirre: Plan de lenguas o Gramatica bascongada en el dialecto bizcaíno (fragmento) 

      Hurch, Bernhard (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The existence of the Plan de Lenguas has been a widely discussed mystery in the history of Basque. We have mostly indirect knowledge about it from contemporaries and from the first curator of Astarloa's legacy (J. B. Erro), ...
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      Phase theory, case and relative clauses 

      Gallego, Angel J. (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The goal of this paper is to put forward an analysis of relative clauses which builds on Pesetsky and Torrego's (2001) proposal concerning the C-T connection and the nature of Case. In so doing, a unitary answer to two ...
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      Toponimia vasca medieval: novedades del Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla 

      Peterson, David (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      We present a list of 106 Basque toponyms from the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries that have previously been either unpublished or incorrectly published. While not all the toponyms are new, in the sense that the same ...
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      Aditz jokatugabea eta eta enklitikoa 

      Rotaetxe Amusategui, Karmele (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this article, an analysis and description is carried out of the non-finite verbal Basque forms compatible with the clitic eta. The description shows prosodic and semantic 'features together with grammatical ones ...
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      Sobre la historia de la literatura vasca: diagnóstico y perspectivas 

      Lasagabaster Madinabeitia, Jesús María (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The purpose of this article is to examine Basque literary historiography and determine the priorities that it should establish for the future. The author begins with observations on the important role linguist Koldo Mitxelena ...
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      A look at a second language learnes' task motivation 

      Yanguas, Iñigo (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this study, part of a larger project, I explore a) the possible relationship between task motivation as operationalized in Dörnyei's Process model of motivation and linguistic variables in a written production task, and ...
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      Complements and adjuncts in machine translation 

      Gàbor, Kata; Héja, Eniko (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      A significant number of natural language processing applications cannot work without syntactic parsing. The automatic syntactic analysis of natural language texts in turn requires an efficient method for differentiating ...
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      How strong islands are derived from the way a top-down derivation is linearized 

      Gautier, Valèrie (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The goal of this paper is to show that strong islands can be derived from the way derivation is linearized, as long as we assume that the derivation proceeds in a topdown fashion.To begin with, I will present one advantage ...
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      Imotz, Basaburu Nagusia, Larraun eta Araitz-Betelu ibarretako lexikoaren azterketa 

      Apalauza Ollo, Amaia (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this study we have analysed the lexical characteristics of the Basque language that is spoken in the North West Nafarroa's four valleys: Imo-tz, Basaburu Nagusia, Larraun and Arai-tz-Betelu. Our main objective is to ...
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      Argument structure and morphology: the case of "en"-prefixation revisited 

      Padrosa Trias, Susanna (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this paper I argue that en-prefixed words in Catalan and English (e.g. amorN 'love' ' [[en+amor]V+ar]V 'to make someone fall in love'; nobleA ' [en+noble]V are not exceptions to the Right-hand Head Rule (RHR; Williams ...
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      Aspects of quotative constructions in Iberian Spanish 

      Echepare Iguiñiz, Ricardo (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
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      Argument-mapping and extration 

      Preminger, Omer (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this paper, I propose a unified account for argument-mapping and islandhood in the verbal domain, while casting new light on the notion external argument, as well as the interaction of Case and argument-mapping.I argue ...
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      A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words 

      Penka, Doris (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The semantic status of so-called n-words in Negative Concord languages has been under considerable debate. This paper takes a new perspective on this problem by bringing Negative Concord together with two different phenomena ...
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      Adjectival passives and adjectival decausatives in Hebrew 

      Meltzer, Aya (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The distinction between adjectival passives and verbal passives is a very well known one. In this paper, I try to define the operation that forms adjectival passives in Hebrew. I claim that a close look at Hebrew adjectival ...
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      Types of syncretism in the clitic systems of romance 

      Pescarini, Diego (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this paper I will discuss the hypothesis according to which every clitic system bears an elsewhere item, i.e., a non-specific clitic that can be inserted when the insertion of more specific items is blocked by independent ...
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      Prenominal and postnominal demonstratives in spanish: [+- deictic] approach 

      Taboada Gaviero, Inmaculada (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this paper I propose an explanation for the difference in meaning and in structure between the prenominal and the postnominal demonstratives in Spanish, and its complimentary distribution with the article in prenominal ...
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      Case marking and prepositional marking: some remarks concerning "de"-phrases in Romanian 

      Mardale, Alexandru (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In this paper, we analyze two types of nominal constructions in Romanian: DPs morphologically marked for Genitive and complex DE-phrases. The two types of construction are alike insofar as they involve a relation (which ...
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      Perifrasi zaharra mendebalde eta erdialdeko euskara zaharrean: azterketa kuantifikatiboa eta proposamen berria 

      Mounole Hiriart-Urruty, Céline (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      In the history of the occidental and central dialects of Basque, the verbal periphrases composed by the verbal stem / or the participle and the auxiliaries *edin, *ezan, egin have undergone a change in the form of their ...
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      Consequences of pair-merge (at the interfaces) 

      Irurtzun Sviaguincheva, Aritz; Gallego, Angel J. (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
      The goal of this paper is to explore the basic properties of adjuncts and some of the well-known puzzles these dependents pose for syntactic theorizing within the scenario provided by the Minimalist Program (cf. Chomsky ...