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He himself: Rediscovering a non-local anaphor ✏️
In this paper, we discuss data that were first introduced in a brief but we believe unsettled controversy in Linguistic Inquiry in the late 1980s and early 1990s that has not recei...
Multilingual backgrounds and the identity issue in Cameroon ✏️
This paper seeks to establish at what point the language issue is relevant to the establishment of a Cameroonian identity which is devoid of complications (difficult though it may ...
Sociolinguistic variables in the "degeneracy" of English in postcolonial ("non-native") contexts ✏️
This paper tackles from a broad historical perspective the attitudes, media and strategies of transmission, and the interplay of English and identity in the world today. It traces ...
Edouard Bourciezen "Haur prodigoaren parabola": edizio paleografiko konparatua ✏️
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 Pro...
Noticias sobre lingüística histórica (I) ✏️
The goal of the following reviews (originally written during the summer time of 1999-2002 and 2005) is to offer a constructive critic of recent works on historical linguistics devo...
Aditz jokatugabea eta "eta" enklitikoa ✏️
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 feat...
Toponimia vasca medieval: novedades del Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla ✏️
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present a list of 106 Basque toponyms from the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries that have previously been either unpublished or incorrectly published.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 top...
H1 gisako urruntasun luzeko NZ-galderen jabekuntza haur euskaldun batengan ✏️
In this article we present data from the first language (L1) acquisition of Long-distance (LD) wh-questions. The subject's age at the begining of the experiment was 5;1. The main a...
Sobre la historia de la literatura vasca: diagnóstico y perspectivas ✏️
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 o...
Imotz, Basaburu Nagusia, Larraun eta Araitz-betelu ibarretako lexikoaren azterketan ✏️
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 Ar...
The complementary distribution between PRO and lexical subjects ✏️
This paper presents an account of one of the problems regarding the distribution of controlled subjects: the complementary distribution between PRO and lexical DPs. The growing evi...
Perifrasi zaharra mendebalde eta erdialdeko euskara zaharrean: azterketa kuantifikatiboa eta proposamen berria ✏️
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 ...
Materiales vascos del legado de Wilhelm von Humboldt (III): Pablo Pedro de Astarloa y Aguirre: "Plan de lenguas" o "Gramatica Bascongada en el Dialecto Bizcaino (fragmento)" ✏️
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...
Materiales vascos del legado de Wilhelm von Humboldt: la relevancia de Astarloa y el "Plan de Lenguas" ✏️
Although Astarloa's Plan de Lenguas remains lost, a copy of a fragment of the manuscript was found among the papers of the Humboldt legacy. In this article the history of Plan de L...
A look at second language learners' task motivation ✏️
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 ...
Prenominal and postnominal demonstratives in Spanish: a [± deictic] approach ✏️
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 di...
Argument-mapping and extraction ✏️
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 interac...
Types of syncretism in the clitic systems of Romance ✏️
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 m...
A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words ✏️
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 C...
Argument structure and morphology: the case of en-prefixation revisited ✏️
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...
Adjectival passives and adjectival decausatives in Hebrew ✏️
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 c...
Case marking and prepositional marking. Some remarks concerning DE-phrases in Romanian ✏️
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 in...
Consequences of pair-merge (at the interfaces) ✏️
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...
On the interaction of velars and labials ✏️
The paper treats data from a wide range of languages to show, on the one hand, that there is pervasive direct interaction between labials and velars to the exclusion of coronals, a...
The acquisition of Basque ergative case: an experimental study ✏️
Basque children omit ergative case markers for about five months before the production of this case mark becomes adult-like. This has been considered a problem in the acquisition o...
Extracting information from participial structures ✏️
Our applied linguistic research aims at increasing the efficiency of a rule-based information extraction (IE) system by enhancing it with further grammatical knowledge. The input o...
Adjectives and proper nouns in Romance and English ✏️
My contribution examines some problems raised by adjectival restrictive modification of proper nouns. I begin with a contrast between the way in which this modification is achieved...
How strong islands are derived from the way a top-down derivation is linearized ✏️
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. ...
Phase theory, case and relative clauses ✏️
The goal of this paper is to put forward an analysis of relative clauses which builds on Pesetsky & Torrego's (2001) proposal concerning the C-T connection and the nature of Case. ...
Complements and adjuncts in machine translation ✏️
A significant number of natural language processing applications cannot work without syntactic parsing. The automatic syntactic analysis of natural language texts in turn requires ...
Consumer Eroski parallel corpus ✏️
This paper introduces the Consumer Eroski Parallel Corpus, a collection of articles originally written in Spanish and later translated to three languages also spoken in Spain: Basq...
Mapping the nation in contemporary Basque literature ✏️
This article examines the importance of memory and reflections on memory in the modern humanities. After a brief review of the concepts introduced by various critics and historians...
Notas sobre lingüística histórica (II) ✏️
Campbell & Poser offer what is probably the most accurate and balanced discussion on the issue, i.e. genealogy in linguistics. Authors make use of the research done with well known...
Bandidaje y épica: Los orígenes históricos del «Cantar de Sandailia» ✏️
One of the few fragments that have been conserved from the Basque medieval epic is the Cantar de Sandailia. Documents in the Municipal Archives in Mondragón confirm the historicit...
Berriz Aizkibelen 'Euskera' eskuizkribuaz: Edizioa eta iturriak ✏️
In this paper I offer a new edition of the Euskera manuscript, written by the bascologist J.F. Aizkibel in 1856. The preliminary study focuses on a survey of the sources extensivel...
Filled-gap effects in sentence processing: different accounts compared ✏️
It is widely accepted that the human sentence parsing mechanism is subject to real-time constraints that demand some decisions to be made on-line. One of the areas of research in s...
Egitura kausatiboak euskaran, eslaboan eta erromantzean: konparaketa tipologiko baterantz ✏️
This article follows the wake of the author's previous articles regarding framework (typology) and study languages (Slavic, Romance and Basque), although on this occasion, the subj...
An overview of theories of the syntax-phonology interface ✏️
This article is intended as a critical survey of the phonological theories of the syntax-phonology interface. These theories can be divided into two main groups, according to the r...
Orozkoko euskararen azterketa diakronikorantz hurbiltze bat ✏️
In this paper, we try to make a historical account of the particular characteristics that define Orozkoan dialect (Biskay), in order to know the evolution of this valley and that o...
La aspiración de origen nasal en la evolución fonológica del euskera: un caso de 'rhinoglottophilia' ✏️
From a typological perspective, the diachronic correspondence -n- > -h- is perhaps the most marked development in the phonological history of the Basque language. The examples of...
Nafarroa Behereko euskara zaharra ✏️
The goal of this work is to offer an overview of the evolution of the Basque language in Low Navarre from the 16th to the 19th century. With this purpose in mind, we have selected ...
Vida con/y libertad: sobre una coordinación arcaica y la autenticidad de «Urthubiako Alhaba» ✏️
In this note to Cid's work, we recall the existence of a certain construction in a ballad called «Urthubiako Alhaba». This NP-coordination construction (X-ekin/-gaz Y = X eta Y [...
Notas sobre el texto vasco de «Urthubiako Alhaba» ✏️
At the Bibliotèque Nationale de Paris, in the volume V of the Poésies popularies de la France, Fond français, nauvelles acquisitions, number 3.342, there is a Basque text writte...
La balada «Urthubiako alhaba»: Problemas y conjeturas ✏️
The oral ballad Urthubiako Alhaba was published by Julien Vinson in 1884, from an original manuscript. The text, which could date back to a c. 1830 recitation, was considered unaut...
"Amodioaren martirra" (1900-1901), foiletoi-nobela ezezaguna ✏️
In this article we present an old Basque newspaper serial. This serial was unknown to this day, despite having been published in 1900-1901, and it constitutes the only such work in...
Interferentzia, hiztun garbien galera eta mintzaldaketa: Hiriart-Urrutiren garaiko zenbait korrelato ✏️
Language contact often results in three different types of outcome: a jump from language maintenance to language shift in the use of the languages at work, an increase in the numbe...
Les textes de Cerquand. Les contes qui n'existent pas ✏️
Our article is about the Basque stories that Jean-François Cerquand published between 1875 and 1882 in the Bulletin de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau. The prin...
Hazparneko bertsolari xurien eta gorrien arteko azken uztarrak ✏️
In this paper, I present and comment a verse composition of thebertso paper genre, produced in the context of the departmental elections of the Low Pyrenees of 1893 in the locality...
On the position of central adverbial clauses ✏️
One major concern of syntactic theory has been the identification of the structural position of adjuncts in the clausal architecture with the ultimate goal of explaining their prop...
Dominique Dufau (1880-1956) notario senpertarraren testu juridikoak euskaraz: lexikoa eta itzultze-lana ✏️
Few juridic texts are known in the Basque languague's history. They have an strong interest, both for the linguists as for the lawyers. In the same way they are a truthful tool to ...
Euskarazko hitz anitzeko unitate lexikalen tratamendu konputazionala ✏️
Multi-word Lexical Units (MWLU) are of great importance in language in general, and in Natural Language Processing in particular, since they are not governed by the free rules of t...
Martin Harrieten hiztegiak: eraketari buruzko zenbait berri ✏️
In this work, we present new data and an original hypothesis regarding Martin Harriet's grammar (1741), and in particular concerning the two vocabularies —Basque-French (BF) and ...
"Viva Jesus" dotrinaren azterketa bibliografia materialaren arabera ✏️
Viva Jesús is an anonymous doctrine printed around the XVIIth century in which the author or translator's name does not appear and neither does the printer's mark. In spite of the...
Hizkuntzak eta aldaerak euskal narratibaren sorreran ✏️
An analysis is provided of how the writers who told stories in the last third of the XIXth century faced the portrayal offered by linguistic reality. To be specific, the object of ...
Derived nominals from the nominal perspective ✏️
Derived Nominals are considered to be the last stage in the nominalization scale. This scale includes a continuum of structures with both nominal and verbal characteristics, and de...
Euskal deituren jatorria eta etxe izengoitiak ✏️
This contribution seeks to explore the main sources of Basque family names: patronymics, toponyms and nicknames (oikonymic, social and lexical). Family names which are possibly bas...
Literaturaren zertarakoa, itzulpenak eta hizkuntzaren auzia Orixerengan ✏️
Since a time that has to be placed approximately after the war, Orixe moved away from the opinion —common among the euskatzale groups of the time— that literature would be wha...
Errenteriako euskararen kokagunea ✏️
In this study, we wish to describe the current Basque language in Renteria to determine which dialect it belongs to. In order to offer an accurate description of the variety and it...
On the unifiability of repairs for the Person Case Constraint: French, Basque, Georgian and Chinook ✏️
The Person Case Constraint blocks 1st/2nd person agreement in the presence of an applicative dative. Unlike other sources of ungrammaticality, it often has repairs: constructions ...
On the polysemy of the suffix "-ke" in the history of Northern Basque ✏️
The various semantic values of the suffix ‑ke in Northern Basque are shown to depend, in the analytic conjugations, (a) on the type of verbal complex - aspectually marked partic...
Erdal aurrizkien irtenbideak "Zehazki" hiztegian (eta II) ✏️
The disparity between the lexical resources of Castilian and Basque, the former being rich in prefixes and the almost total lack of them predominating in the latter, has put Basque...
XVIII. mendeko gutun baten azterketa soziala eta linguistikoa ✏️
In this work, the paleographic edition of a letter written at the end of the XVIIIth century is shown and a version adapted to current criteria is also given. The letter was writte...
Erroreak automatikoki detektatzeko tekniken azterlana eta euskararentzako aplikazioak ✏️
In this article, we study the techniques used for detecting errors in Natural Language Processing (NLP). We classify the techniques according to their approach (symbolic or empiric...
Ohar batzuk bokal batez: zubereraren [y] ✏️
The diachronic evolution from /u/ to /y/ in the Souletin dialect of Basque has traditionally been considered a borrowed sound change. Researchers have mostly focused on the issue o...
Basque Writing in the Iberian Context: Brief Notes on the Translations of Basque Literature ✏️
After considering the function of translated literature (from Basque, into Basque) in our literary system, the article analyzes the relations between the literatures of Spain (Cata...
Elgoibarko eta Debabarreneko hizkeren kokapenaz gehiago ✏️
In the works on dialectology, the linguistic junction is discussed that is formed by the varieties from Low Deba, a region where many characterizing isoglosses meet. This article t...
"Oyharçabal" eta Santa Graziko beste toponimo eta oikonimo batzuk 1838 eta 1914ko katastroen arabera (grafia arazoak ebazten) ✏️
It is not easy to write a word in a language following the spelling rules of a foreign one. Writing a Basque name by using the rules of French appears obviously not a simple task. ...
Klotildaren miraria "Klobis" pastoralean ✏️
In this work, we present a small sample of the Soule Pastoral. We give two texts that narrate the same fragment of the work Klobis, taken from the XVIIIh and the XIXth century man...
Adabakiak /h/-aren balio etimologikoaz ✏️
In this work, after a brief overview on the main proposals about aspiration since Michelena's Fonética histórica vasca (§I), I claim for the etymological value of word internal...
Euskal Gramatika prozesatzen: hastapenetako zenbait emaitza ✏️
After a brief introduction to ERP methods in the study of language, we report some recent results from a set of experiments investigating morphosyntactic processing in Basque. Firs...
Euskara hizkuntza zeltikoa zenean: oharra XVIII. mendeko uste genetikoez ✏️
A widely held view throughout the 18th century was that the Basque language belongs to the Celtic branch of Indo-European. This belief was especially popular among French scholars....
"-(e)la" morfemaz osaturiko esaldien erabilera gaurko euskaldun gazteen mintzairan ✏️
In this article, the analysis of sentences using the morpheme -(e)la is carried out, using as a reference the speech of young people. The objective is to study these sentences in o...
«Emakume-bahitzea» eta lege fonetikoak Georg von der Gabelentzen «Hizkuntza arrotzak jasotzeko eskuliburua»-ren ingurukoak ✏️
In his late years Georg von der Gabelentz publishes a Handbook for collecting data from foreign languages. In his legacy we found one test-copy filled in by himself for Basque. As ...
Goizuetako azentuaz zerbait gehiago: oharmena ✏️
As we have shown in previous work, in the Basque dialect of Goizueta both the position of the stress and the tonal contour that the stressed syllable bears are lexically contrastiv...
Erlatiboak iparraldean "Haur prodigo"aren 141 itzulpenetan ✏️
The article attempts to analyze the comparative usage of the different relative clause types through the 141 translations of the parabola of the Prodigal son in the Bourciez collec...
A note on Basque participles ✏️
This paper develops and extends a unified account of two different guises of participial affixes in Basque suggested in Haddican (2007). The affixes -tu/-i/-n/-Ø are traditionall...
Eredu latindarraren eragina euskal deklinabidearen XIX. mendeko deskribapenetan ✏️
This paper explores the traces of the influence of the Latin grammatical tradition on the 19th-century descriptions of the Basque declension. For the purposes of the paper I descri...
Hauta-galderez ✏️
Grammars usually distinguish three kinds of interrogative sentences: a) WH questions; b) alternative questions and 3) polar or 'yes/no' questions. The aim of this paper is to contr...
Komunztadurarik gabeko datiboen gakoez ✏️
This paper analyzes some of the factors accounting for dative agreement drop in 19th and 20th century Lapurdian writers. Following Fernández & Landa (2009), a distinction is made ...
Hitz hurrenkera eta birregituraketa euskaraz ✏️
The analysis focuses on those varieties of Basque that admit the participial dependent to occur either before or after the modal verb. It is shown that in these varieties, the synt...
Euskal artikuluak bultza ditzakeen interpretazioez ✏️
This paper proposes a novel analysis for the Basque definite determiner [-a] where it is argued, in opposition to other scholars (cf. Artiagoitia 2002, 2006 where [-a] is argued to...
Inflexio kanporatze gertakariak euskaraz ✏️
This article presents several processes of externalization of inflection of the kind described by Haspelmath (1993) that are found in the diachrony of Basque.In the first part, we ...
Cas locatifs et cas grammaticaux en damana ✏️
An Amerindian language spoken in the north of Colombia, Damana has a partic ularly rich series of locative cases. Its synchronic analysis also shows the links that exist between lo...
Maileguen erabilera ekialdeko eskuizkribu batean ✏️
In this article I examine the use of borrowing in a Basque manuscript from the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The manuscript is a cooking book, and it contains 28 recipees. We d...
"Gailu"ren bilakabidea garai bateko testuetatik oraingoetara ✏️
In this article, we wish to explain the distinct evolution undergone by the suffix gailu in the texts included in the historical and actual corpora. This evolution shows peculiar ...
Euskara Batuaren garapen lexiko-diskurtsiboa: batasunetik aniztasun funtzionalerantz ✏️
In the decade of the sixties, the main concern of the experts in Basque language was how to unite the speech community. However, after forty years of Standard Basque, the objective...
The prosody and interpretation of non-exhaustive narrow focus in Basque ✏️
In this paper we analyze the intonational properties of a type of focus construction that has not been discussed in the literature on focus in generative grammar. We refer to a typ...
Errealitate soziolinguistikoaren deskribapena eta irudikatzea-hiru aldagairekiko modeloak ✏️
Like other sciences, sociolinguistics tries to offer some objective and rational understanding of a part of reality. Before proceeding to explain, and then predict, the effects of ...
Metamorfosis parnasianas de "Atharratze Jauregian": Albert Glatigny, 1868 ✏️
The ballad «The lady of the palace of Tardets» was employed and rewritten by the poet and theatrical author Albert Glatigny, in a historical drama that was published in Bayonne i...
Francisque Michel eta euskal literaturaren historia ✏️
In 1857, Francisque Michel published his well known Le Pays Basque. In this voluminous book, he provided an extensive and detailed introduction to Basque literature. Despite the fa...
"Filotea"ren lehen itzulpenen "electio verborum"-erako hurbiltze saioa ✏️
This research paper explores the elocutive quality of the electio verborum or word choice in the two earliest Basque versions of the Introduction to the Devote Life by saint Franc...
