Basque and Romance : Aligning Grammars.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (362 pages)
- Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages Series ; v.7 .
- Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Berro, Fernández and Ortiz de Urbina) -- Chapter 2. Word Order (Ortiz de Urbina) -- Chapter 3. Tense, Aspect and mood (Hualde and Mounole) -- Chapter 4. Non-verbal Participles in Basque and Spanish (Berro) -- Chapter 5. (In)transitive Verbs: Unergatives and Unaccusatives (Berro) -- Chapter 6. Light Verb Constructions in Basque and Romance (Acedo-Matellán and Pineda) -- Chapter 7. On Non-selected Datives: Ethical Datives in Basque and Spanish (Fernández) -- Chapter 8. Differential Object Marking in Basque and Spanish Dialects (Odria) -- Chapter 9. Complex Causative Verbs and Causees in Basque (and Romance) (Ortiz de Urbina) -- Chapter 10. Grammaticalization Processes in Causal Subordination (Hualde and Pérez Saldanya) -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Aligning Grammars: Basque and Romance offers a theoretically-informed in-depth description of several linguistic structures of Basque and surrounding Romance languages. Its goal is to shed some light on the linguistic systems of these languages and their interactions.