Aspiration in Basque

Dative Overmarking in Basque: Evidence of Spanish-Basque Convergence

This paper investigates a recent change in the grammar of spoken Basque which results in the substitution of dative case and agreement for absolutive case and agreement in marking animate, specific direct objects. I argue that this pattern of use is due to convergence between the feature matrix of the functional category AGR in Spanish and Basque. In contrast to previous studies which point to ...

Basque clitics in morphosyntax*

This paper addresses the question of φ -feature marking in Basque. Basque finite verbs display an uncommonly large number of morphemes which covary with the φ -features of the absolutive, ergative, and dative arguments as well as (in some dialects) the gender of the addressee. Recent work (Preminger 2009; Arregi & Nevins 2012) has addressed the question of how these morphemes are derived. In ta...

The Basque Country University system: English and Basque tasks

Our group participated in the Basque and English lexical sample tasks in Senseval-3. A language-specific feature set was defined for Basque. Four different learning algorithms were applied, and also a method that combined their outputs. Before submission, the performance of the methods was tested for each task on the Senseval-3 training data using cross validation. Finally, two systems were sub...

Meconium aspiration syndrome in neonates

Perhaps the most significant changes in airway management over the recent years have been in the management of an infant delivered through meconium- stained amniotic fluid( MSAF). MSAF occurs in approximately 10℅ to 20℅ of all deliveries and increases to over 30℅ in deliveries after 42 weeks gestation. Meconium aspiration syndrome ( MAS) occurs in about 2℅ to 5℅ of these cases with a high morta...

Person restrictions in Basque intransitives