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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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Nominal participles, a case of categorial alternance: Eventive nominalizations in "-da"
The purpose of this paper is to present a first approximation to the description of the formation and behavior of a type of deverbal noun in Spanish, formed as of the suffixation o...
Antecedent-Gap relations and locality in verbal ellipsis
This paper investigates the different locality restrictions that apply to some verbal ellipsis constructions in English; namely, Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE), Pseudogapping and Gappi...
Identifying and processing topicalization in Danish
In Danish there is a surprising asymmetry between pronouns and full DPs: pronouns can always be fronted, whereas full DPs are subjugated to more restrictions. This puzzle has not b...
Predicate nominals in eventive copular sentences
This paper presents a comparative study of predicate nominals in eventive copular sentences. I am concerned with languages that grammaticalize the contrast between eventive and non...
Resumptive pronouns and Matching effects in Zurich German Relative clauses as distributed deletion
Zurich German (ZG) relative clauses are remarkable from a Germanic point of view in that resumptive pronouns are employed instead of relative pronouns. Reconstruction effects and S...
The compilation of a sample PFR Chinese corpus of Skeleton-parsed sentences
The approach taken in this paper for the construction of a treebank is inspired by the skeleton parsing approach. From the PFR Chinese Corpus, a sample text of some 100,000 word to...
One-Place and Two-Place Predicates that Concern the Unaccusative Hypothesis and the Typological Classification of Languages
My research explores the predicate-argument structure of unergatives (cough, dream, float, run, work…) and questions their ontological status as a primitive type of intransitive ...
Indexing religious identity in the French Basque Country: Toward a theory of pronominal shift
This paper argues that the loss of T (hi) in Basque can be attributed, in part, to the religious identities linked to T and V between the 16th and 19th centuries. Throughout this p...
Experimental test of a hypothesized diachronic change in Basque accentuation
In the central and western Basque-speaking regions there are two main accentual types: In the Northern Bizkaian area we find a pitch-accent system with demarcative phrase-initial r...
Intonazio kurben etenez
Lantxo honetan intonazioaren antolamendua hobeto ulertzekotzat, etenen azterketarako hurbilpena egiten da. Horretarako Bizkaiko 20 herritan jasotako testu libreekin egin dugun etik...
"Aditz bakarraren" teoria XIX. mendeko euskal gramatikagintzan
Lan honetan XIX. mendeko zenbait gramatikarik euskal aditzari buruzko azterketetan nola edo hala "aditz bakarraren" teoria deitu izan dena nola adierazi eta erabili zuten azaldu na...
Silvain Pouvreauren hiztegiaren iturriak eta testukritikaren metodologia
In the XVII century the French priest Silvain Pouvreau prepared a Basque-French dictionary that never was published. In the entries of his dictionary Pouvreau compiled a great numb...
La curiosa historia de una palabra fantasma: 'çainana'
At the beginning of the 18th century, printed Basque lexicographic compilations were scarce. That state of affairs made Fréret create his own Vocabulaire Basque (ca. 1714) by comp...
