Xabier Artiagoitia
Xabier Artiagoitia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xabier Artiagoitia plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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We make two claims regarding weather expressions in Basque: first, based on Eriksen et al.’s (2010) typology, we show that Basque tends towards the argument type (and less frequently so to the predicate-argument type) when coding dynamic (precipitation or other) events and to both the argument and… read more | Article
Artiagoitia, Xabier. 2012.
Genitive case and multiple checking in Basque.
Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and semantics, Etxeberria, Urtzi, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), pp. 209–242
This article proposes that Basque genitive case can be checked in two positions: one in bare NPs, and the other in the specifier of Poss, a projection below DP and higher than QP. The first genitive resembles Chomsky’s (1986) inherent genitive case and is restricted to object genitives. The… read more | Article
Artiagoitia, Xabier. 2012.
The DP Hypothesis in the grammar of Basque.
Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and semantics, Etxeberria, Urtzi, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), pp. 21–78
This article justifies Abney’s DP Hypothesis from a point of view internal to Basque grammar. The author reviews Abney’s arguments and adapts them to Basque, devoting special attention to proper names and personal pronouns. Two separate sections discuss (a) the relevance of the NP/DP distinction in… read more | Article
Artiagoitia, Xabier. 1993.
Syllable Structure in Modern Basque and in Proto-Basque.
Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics, Hualde, José Ignacio and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), pp. 263–287
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