Iván Igartua- Doctor of Philosophy
- Full professor at University of the Basque Country
Iván Igartua
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Full professor at University of the Basque Country
Professor of Slavic Linguistics
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Morphological strategies for inflectional exponence have traditionally been associated with different stages in the evolution of languages. Moreover, the so-called morphological cycle (or the typological cycle in morphology) is claimed to involve a unidirectional sequence of changes that leads from isolation to agglutination (separative exponence i...
In addition to its central role in the organization of gender systems and its numerous effects on different parts of the grammar, animacy reveals itself as a significant, sometimes even determinant factor in diachronic processes like the reduction of morphological complexity. Complexity in the realm of inflection may be defined as the extent to whi...
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refe...
Despite its alleged relative stability, grammatical gender has nevertheless been completely lost in a number of languages. Through the analysis of three case studies (Afrikaans, Ossetic, and Cappadocian Greek) and a brief survey of similar developments in other languages, this article investigates the link between the loss of gender and language co...
This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we argue that the partitive case in Finnic...
The contrast between apical and laminal articulations in Basque dento-alveolar sibilant consonants has traditionally attracted linguists’ attention. This distributedness distinction, as it has come to be known in the literature, was assumed to be very uncommon, a sort of typological oddity (perhaps the only one) of Basque consonantism, which, in al...
Dar sentido cabal a la inscripción de Irulegi es una tarea que se resiste, tanto si se parte de la comparación con el euskera como si es el ibérico el término de esa comparación. La pieza integra elementos de una cierta proximidad superficial con euskera y/o ibérico, pero contiene a la vez secuencias que parecen ajenas a cualquier patrón conocido,...
La reduplicación compleja en euskera: notas acerca de su formación y sus paralelos en otras lenguas Iván IGARTUA FONTES LINGVAE VASCONVM stvdia et docvmenta Año XLV • Número 116 • 2013.
An introduction to the history of the Basque language (written in co-authorship with Xabier Zabaltza).
Las construcciones vascas basadas en la reduplicación con m- inicial representan un tipo de composición léxica muy extendido en diversas lenguas europeas y asiáticas. La procedencia última de este peculiar mecanismo de reduplicación compleja, o reduplicación total con variación, se localiza en el conjunto de lenguas túrquicas. A partir de estas, el...
Artikuluak XVIII. mendeko hiztegi eleaniztun handienean, Peter Simon Pallasek argitara emandako Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa izenekoan (S. Petersburgo, 1786/87-1789), jaso ziren euskarazko hitzen iturri lexikografikoak ditu aztergai nagusi. 1785ean Errusiako enperatriz EkaterinaII.ak munduko 200 hizkuntzetako (272 kontuan hartzen...
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refe...
El presente trabajo ofrece un análisis tipológico de dos fenómenos relacionados con la marcación de caso en la lengua vasca en los que la animacidad —o la distinción entre lo animado y lo que no lo es— resulta determinante. Se trata, por un lado, de la asignación de caso al objeto directo y, por otro, de la marcación de los casos locativos. Hemos c...
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Paucal constructions represent a specific sub-area in the grammar of Russian in which a kind of morphosyntactic variation can be found that is unattested elsewhere in the language. This variation occurs in some animate paucal constructions especially when these are in the direct object function....
In addition to its central role in the organization of gender systems and its numerous effects on different parts of the grammar, animacy reveals itself as a significant, sometimes even determinant factor in diachronic processes like the reduction of morphological complexity. As illustrated by the three case studies presented in this talk, animacy...
Available at https://ehu.academia.edu/NereaMadariaga
Paucal constructions are unanimously considered one of the most puzzling areas of Russian grammar. The expressions containing lower numerals (dva/dve ‘two’, tri ‘three’, četyre ‘four’, as well as oba/obe ‘both’) display special morphosyntactic properties that have attracted the attention of many...
The particular affinity linking glottality and nasality to each other, a connection which is grounded both on articulatory and acoustic bases, seems to be responsible for various phonetic phenomena in different languages. In sound changes associated to what has been termed
rhinoglottophilia
(Matisoff 1975), the two logically possible diachronic pat...
En este artículo se propone una tipología nueva, que aspira a ser completa, del reanálisis morfológico, tomando en cuenta no solo los fenómenos derivativos, sino también los flexivos. Con arreglo a esta propuesta se pueden identificar cuatro tipos principales de reanálisis morfológico: la fusión afijal, la secreción afijal, la deafijación y la reaf...
Indo-European formations in *-lo- (adjectives and nouns) have undergone a process of grammatical change leading to its partial or total conversion into verbal forms in Tocharian, Armenian, and Slavic. In the latter IE branch, those adjectives with the old suffix *-lo- gave rise to a productive class of perfect or resultative participles, which are...
En el artículo se revisan los datos morfológicos que permiten definir, desde una perspectiva diacrónica, el contenido semántico y el status gramatical del dat. sg. eslavo en -ovi/-evi. En contraste con la situación actual, en casi todos los sistemas medievales la desinencia estuvo muy extendida entre los nombres propios y los apelativos de persona...
La desinencia de gen. sg. de los temas en -á es uno de los apartados más oscuros de la flexión nominal eslava. Durante los dos últimos siglos se ha propuesto una abundante cantidad de explicaciones, pero ninguna de ellas ha resultado ser lo suficientemente satisfactoria. La única posibilidad de explicación etimológica que aún resta depende de una n...
