Ekaitz Santazilia
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ekaitz Santazilia is
involved.
Title
Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a… read moreArticles
Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga 2025
Introduction: State of the art of research on language isolates Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter This paper discusses the issues faced by linguists analyzing language isolates, namely their definition, recovering their histories, and commonly used methods that implicitly rely on non-isolate status. This is followed by a critical review of recent approaches meant to overcome these issues. We… read more Santazilia, Ekaitz 2020
The two faces of animacy Studies in Language 44:4, pp. 812–830 | Article As pointed out by Corbett (2006, 2012), animacy manifests itself in the grammar of languages in two ways: as a feature and as a condition for the realization of other features. In this work I explore this dual behavior by adding further crosslinguistic evidence. I provide examples affecting… read more 
