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
Eneko Zuloaga
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eneko Zuloaga 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
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