Céline Mounole
List of John Benjamins publications in which Céline Mounole is involved.
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
2024 Alignment variations in the diachrony of Basque: The case of periphrastic constructions Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:1, pp. 108–141 | Article
Besides highly grammaticalized analytic verb forms that constitute the system’s main tense, aspect, and mood forms, Basque has a handful of less grammaticalized periphrases for secondary aspectual and modal meanings. In both older and more recent texts, some of these periphrases have been… read more
2017 Non-canonical valency patterns in Basque, variation and evolution Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 151–174 | Chapter
In Standard Basque and in most present-day dialects, coding frames that were exceptional in Old Basque are attested by a sizeable proportion of the verbal lexicon, which results in a system characterized by a typologically uncommon type of split intransitivity. In this paper, we… read more
2011 Animacy and spatial cases: Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article
In the expression of spatial relationships, it is cross-linguistically common that human or animate nouns have particularities that distinguish them from other nouns. After presenting cross-linguistic data illustrating some tendencies observed in the behavior of human or animate nouns in spatial… read more