
Gontzal AldaiUniversity of the Basque Country | UPV/EHU · Departamento de Lingüística y Estudios Vascos
Gontzal Aldai
Doctor of Philosophy
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Lines of research: Typology, Usage-based linguistics, Historical linguistics. Basque grammar, Historical dialectology of Basque.
Research topics: Ergativity, case-marking alignment, verb morphology, tense-aspect-mood, relative clauses, word order.
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How might Basque have looked before it came in contact with Latin? This interesting line of research may give us an idea of what the pre-Indo-European languages of Europe might have looked like, and it may help clarify how much contact-induced change Basque might have undergone during the last two millennia or so. The present paper puts forward the...
In this paper we first test whether there is statistical support for a transitivity hierarchy viewed as an implicational hierarchy. To that end we construct data-driven transitivity hierarchies of two-place verb meanings based on the Valency Patterns Leipzig (ValPaL) database using Guttman scaling. We look at how well the hierarchies conform to str...
En este artículo se examina un contexto sintáctico muy concreto, las subordinadas completivas del verbo gertatu ‘ocurrir’, en el autor labortano de principios del siglo XVIII Joanes Haraneder. Los ejemplos hallados en el habla de Haraneder muestran un fenómeno sorprendente, donde las subordinadas finitas de gertatu con valor de perfectivo tienen un...
In this article I test Hawkins' (Efficiency and complexity in grammars, Oxford University Press, 2004) theory on wh-questions against Basque data from the 16th to 20th centuries. I focus on wh-fronting. Basque has experienced a noticeable word-order change in wh-questions; namely, a restricting conventionalization (fixation) of relative orders out...
Although Basque's case-marking pattern has conventionally been regarded as ergative, I argue in this article that it is not straightforward to determine whether this pattern is actually ergative or rather semantically-based. Several factors make this one a complex issue. Perhaps the most important factor among these, and one which has gone largely...
Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This book presents a collection of new typological exa...
En este artículo se pretende hacer un seguimiento histórico de algunas características verbales del Alto-Navarro Meridional. Se compara el periodo antiguo (siglos XVI-XVII) con el que podríamos llamar periodo clásico (Joaquín Lizarraga, de Elkano; siglos XVIII-XIX). A pesar de que el estudio se limita a los auxiliares, la impresión que se obtiene p...
En este artículo se hacen algunos comentarios a la última edición de los Refranes y Sentencias de 1596: la edición de J. A. Lakarra (1996). El artículo, primeramente, destaca el gran trabajo de Lakarra, por completo y acertado. Posteriormente, comenta sobre algunos de los muchos problemas que la lengua de los Refranes y Sentencias presenta, princip...
En este artículo se muestra un importante rasgo morfosintáctico arcaizante de la lengua de los Refranes y Sentencias de 1596 que no ha sido tenido debidamente en cuenta hasta la fecha por la lingüística vasca en general. Se trata del "valor impersonal" (equivalente a Castellano se dice) de las formas verbales sintéticas con prefijo l-. Se intenta i...
In this paper I compare the use of the Old Basque (archaic) Periphrastic Aorist (har nezan 'I took') and of the Past Perfect-Perfective or Modern Perfective (hartu nuen 'I took') in the 16 th century writers Leizarraga (from Labourd) and Lazarraga (from Alava). While the Periphrastic Aorist in Leizarraga is already well known among scholars (having...
En este artículo se defiende y se muestra evidencia de diverso tipo en favor de la hipótesis de que las formas verbales conocidas como Aoristo, es decir, de Pasado Sintético (nentorren, nekarren) y de Pasado con auxiliares *edin / *ezan-egin (zahar nendin, lor nezan, jan negien), serían en un estadio de lengua algo anterior a los primeros textos co...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-365).