Edited by Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute… read more
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and… read more
Negative particles can target non-clausal constituents, giving rise to a number of configurations in which the negation particle immediately precedes the negated term. One well-known instance are sequences in which negation precedes a quantifier. Different ways of analysing these sequences have… read more
Basque has a noun meaning need and a modal form, traditionally classified as verbal, homophonous to it, as in English. This paper provides a derivational account of the relation between the nominal and the so-called verbal need in Basque, by claiming that the purported verbal cases are derived from… read more
We provide a principled account of the morphosyntax-semantics interface of non-root modals in two Romance languages (Spanish/French) vs. English. While English modals are morphologically impoverished, Romance modals are fully inflected for tense and aspect and the possible combinations of tense and… read more
