A 44-year-old Basque鈥揊rench bilingual patient with aphasia, and a control subject, were assessed on a dictation task. The task consisted in hearing Basque or French numbers, and writing them in Arabic numerals.
This is actually one of the most characteristic properties of the Basque definite article [-a(k)] in Standard Basque.3(2)Subject position:a.Lagun*(-a) beranduetorri zen.friend-D.sg.abslatecomeaux.sg‘The friend came late’b.Lagun*(-ak)beranduetorriziren.lagun-D.pl.abslatecomeaux.pl...
Juan Cobarrubias (Seton Hall University), who has extensive knowledge on the coordination of Basque linguistic policy, details the subject of normalization in its multiple aspects: linguistic, legal, political, etc. and its interrelations and connections in the Basque context. His expertise is the ...