Julen Manterola
List of John Benjamins publications in which Julen Manterola is involved.
2025 Etymologies in a language isolate: Methodological aspects and a proposal to evaluate their quality Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 104–141 | Chapter
This paper presents an introduction to Basque etymological studies from a variety of perspectives. It emphasizes the importance of lexical families and introduces the notion of lexical isolate, exploring its relevance for both etymological endeavors and hypotheses of genetic relationship.… read more
2025 The history of the Basque pronoun zuek ‘you all’ and the role of demonstratives as plural markers From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization processes and beyond, Orqueda, Veronica and Berta González Saavedra (eds.), pp. 263–291 | Article
This paper elucidates the role of internal and external factors in the semantic evolution of Basque zu from ‘you.pl’ to exclusively ‘you.sg’ and in the development of Basque zuek ‘you.pl’. Transparently, zuek involves suffixation of the demonstrative hek ‘those’ to zu. The neighboring Romance… read more
2021 Old Basque had */χ/, not /h/: Medieval data, implications for reconstruction and Basque-Romance contact effects Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:3, pp. 421–456 | Article
The sound change from Latin /f/ to Old Spanish and Gascon /h/ has often been attributed to stratal influence from Basque. The motivation would be that Old Basque lacked /f/, and instead had a phoneme /h/, with which bilingual speakers replaced it when speaking in Romance. However, this… read more
2012 Synchronic ubiquity of the Basque article -a: A look from diachrony Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and semantics, Etxeberria, Urtzi, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), pp. 179–206 | Article
The Basque definite article -a is used in more contexts than the articles in neighboring languages. This extensive use is problematic for synchronic analysis; this article will offer a diachronic perspective of the problem. Non-referential noun phrases (mass nouns and plural expressions in… read more