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
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
This paper studies the syntactic distribution of the Basque hearsay evidential omen across Basque dialects. We test the hypothesis that the complex dialectal variation regarding the syntactic distribution exhibited by omen follows from a basic syntactic microparameter: in central varieties the… read more
Etxepare (2008, 2010) argues that Spanish quotative constructions involve a basic predicative relation between a clausal entity, characterized in cartographic terms as a Force Phrase, and a result noun expressing the concept of utterance or saying. This paper argues that the quotative predicate may… read more
This paper argues that Basque non-agreeing quantifiers are conceptually measures and that measures head their own functional projection in the expanded structure of the Noun Phrase. This functional projection is placed in-between the Classifier Phrase (where division occurs) and the Number Phrase… 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
In colloquial speech, main clauses in Iberian Spanish can be headed by an overt complementizer. This paper develops the idea that such structures in Spanish involve an extra speech eventuality, and that this speech eventuality is syntactically mapped as a complex verbal predicate. This complex… read more
