Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 333 pp. + index
Iker Salaberri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Iker Salaberri plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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
2022 A cross-linguistic study of emphatic negative coordination Studies in Language 46:3, pp. 647–717 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed cross-linguistic analysis of so-called emphatic negative coordination (enc). This kind of clause linkage is illustrated by neither and nor in She neither could nor would speak lightly of the accident. On the basis of a 250-language sample, the… read more
2021 The word order of negation in the history of Basque: A linguistic and sociolinguistic approach Diachronica 38:2, pp. 259–301 | Article
This article investigates word order changes in negated periphrastic constructions in the history of Basque. A number of linguistic variables are argued to correlate with these changes: the negative particle ez is increasingly focalized in main clauses, the innovative pattern negative particle –… read more
2020 Grammaticalization of reflexivity in Basque: A corpus-based diachronic and typological analysis Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:1, pp. 1–41 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of the changes undergone by the reflexive buru-construction in Basque under the light of grammaticalization theory. On the basis of quantitative historical data, the reflexive construction is argued to have undergone changes predicted by… read more