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
Dorota Krajewska
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dorota Krajewska plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
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 The marking of spatial relations on animate nouns in Basque: A diachronic quantitative corpus study Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:2, pp. 241–281 | Article
This corpus-based study examines the diachrony of differential place marking in Basque. In spatial cases, animate nouns in Basque exhibit heavier morphological forms than inanimate ones, but, under some circumstances, they can also be marked as inanimate. The data for the study comprises 66… read more
2021 Chapter 10. (Il)literacy and language change: Non-standard relative constructions in historical Basque Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019, Van de Velde, Hans, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen (eds.), pp. 227–246 | Chapter
In this paper we examine a corpus of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Basque private letters and administration documents from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. Because of the diglossic situation, such texts are rare but valuable in the historical corpus of Basque. In particular, we… read more