Julen Manterola
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julen Manterola plays a role.
Articles
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
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