Ane Berro

Main researcher

Presentation

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Deusto, in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. In September 2015, I defended my PhD dissertation on the inner decomposition of verbs and their aspectual interpretation at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM). In 2017, I was awarded the PhD Extraordinary Award by the University of the Basque Country.

In recent years, my research has focused on voice alternations and their relationship to case and agreement. Together with Beatriz Fernández, I am currently the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU), which explores argument structure and morphology in Basque.

Hizkuntza modernoak eta euskal ikaskuntzak

Deustuko Unibertsitatea / Universidad de Deusto

Unibertsitate Etorb., 24.

48007 Bilbao

Euskal Herria / Basque Country

ane.berro@deusto.es

(00 34) 944 13 90 00 [luzapena: 2138]

Research interests

Argument structure, case, ergativity, aspect, Basque, micro-variation.

Books

Berro, Ane & Beatriz Fernández (2025). Voice and argument structure in Basque. [Cambridge Studies in Linguistics], Cambridge University Press.
Berro, Ane (2015). Breaking verbs. From event structure to syntactic categories in Basque. Doctoral dissertation, UPV/EHU and Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM).

Editions

Berro, Ane & Léa Nash (eds.). (2018-2020). Unergative predicates. Architecture and Variation. Special Collection. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández & Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.). (2019). Basque and Romance: Aligning grammars. Brill.
Fernández, Beatriz & Ane Berro (eds.). (2018). Euskaratik giza hizkuntzara. Jon Ortiz de Urbinari gorazarre. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 126 (Uztaila-abendua). Nafarroako Gobernua.

Papers

Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández eta Ane Odria (2026). Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43: 1285-1325.
Fernández, Beatriz, Ane Berro & Jordi Suïls (2025). Construccions causatives en gascó. Verba 52: 1-14.
Fernández, Beatriz, Ane Berro, Jordi Suïls & Manel Pérez Saldanya (2025). No es veuen, pero existeixen: causats implicits en les causatives indirectes del català, l’occità i el basc. Estudis Romànics 47: 175-191.
Berro, Ane & Cecilia Fernández-Altonaga (2024). -KAdun adberbioez haratago: apurKA-apurKA baina beti aurreraKA. Euskera Ikerketa Aldizkaria 69(2): 47-91.
Bilbao, Kristina, Ane Berro & Beatriz Fernández (2024). Bihurkari eta elkarkari iragangaitzak inpertsonal eta inkoatiboekiko konparazioan. Uztaro 129: 43-68.
Fernández, Beatriz, Ane Berro & Manuel Pérez Saldanya (2024). Connexions bascocatalanes: les impersonals de subjecte suprimit. Caplletra 76: 93-117.
Fernández, Beatriz, Ane Berro & Jordi Suïls (2024). Las construcciones impersonales de sujeto suprimido del gascón. Estudios Románicos 33.
Fernández, Beatriz, Ane Berro, Manuel Pérez Saldanya & Jon Ortiz de Urbina (2023). Subjektu ezabatuko inpertsonalak: euskara, katalana eta gaztelania, gai beraren gaineko balorazioak. International Journal of Basque Lingustics and Philology (ASJU) 57 (1–2): 313-342.
Berro, Ane & Leire Sánchez-Dorronsoro (2023). Egileak eta arazleak jite adjektiboen argitan. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 136: 287-319.
Berro, Ane, Ane Odria & Beatriz Fernández (2022). Person matters in impersonality. Syntax 25(2): 147-187.
Odria, Ane, Ane Berro & Beatriz Fernández (2022). Pertsona murriztapenak ditu inpertsonaltasunak: euskararen kasua. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 133: 191-219.
Fernández, Beatriz & Ane Berro (2021). Basque impersonals in comparison. Linguistics. An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 60(4): 1039-1101.
Pineda, Anna & Ane Berro (2020). Hybrid intransitives in Basque. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 22.
Fernández, Beatriz, Fernando Zuñiga & Ane Berro (2020). Datives with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque. Folia Linguistica 54(3): 647-696.
Berro, Ane (2019). Basque adjectival participles: Stative, resultative or experiential. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1): 66.
Berro, Ane & Beatriz Fernández (2019). Applicatives without verbs. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 37(4): 1273-1317.
Fernández, Beatriz, Ane Berro, Iñigo Urrestarazu & Itziar Orbegozo (2019). Mapping syntactic variation: the BiV database. Linguistic Typology 23(2): 347-374.
Fernández, Beatriz & Ane Berro (2018). Orhiko xoria Ohin laket: izan/adjektibo psikologikoak, gai lokatiboak eta predikazioa. International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 52(1/2): 253-270.
Berro, Ane, Beñat Oihartzabal & Beatriz Fernández (2018). Inkoatibo/arazle alternantzia euskaraz eratortzen. Beatriz Fernández & Ane Berro(ed.). Euskaratik giza hizkuntzara. Jon Ortiz de Urbinari gorazarre. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 126: 99-122.
Fernández, Beatriz & Ane Berro (2018). Atarikoa. Beatriz Fernández & Ane Berro(ed.). Euskaratik giza hizkuntzara. Jon Ortiz de Urbinari gorazarre. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 126: 7-16.
Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández & Itziar Orbegozo (2017). Euskara Bariazioan / Basque in Variation (BiV): lehen urratsak. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 123: 7-28.
Berro, Ane (2015). Egoera predikatu berriak euskaraz. Irantzu Epelde(ed.). Euskal hizkerak eta dialektoak, gaur. Lapurdumeko ale berezia 3: 11-25.
Berro, Ane (2012). Three levels of root insertion in Basque intransitive verbs. Ernestina Carrilho & Beatriz Fernández(ed.). Journal of Portuguese Linguistics. Special Issue 11, 1: 7-22.
Berro, Ane (2010). Unergative predicates in Basque varieties: consequences for the ergative case assignment. P. Salaburu, P. Goenaga & I. Sarasola (ed.). Sareko Euskal Gramatika. Basque Grammar Online (SEG).

Chapters

Sánchez-Dorronsoro, Leire, Beatriz Fernández & Ane Berro (2023). Jite adjektiboak eta aditz psikologikoak euskaraz. In David Lindemann (ed.), Miren Azkarateri esker onez (pp. 257-278). UPV/EHUko Argitalpen Zerbitzua.
Bilbao, Kristina, Ane Berro & Beatriz Fernández (2022). Inkoatibo/arazleak, bihurkari eta elkarkariak eta beste (alegiazko solasaldiak egitura iragangaiztuez). In Alexander Iribar & Irene Barberia (ed.), Papers on Basque Linguistics in Honor of Jon Andoni Franco Elorza (pp. 127-146. ISBN 978-84-1325-171-4). Deustuko Unibertsitatea.
Berro, Ane, Itziar Orbegozo & Beatriz Fernández (2020). Gramatikak dialektologiatik ikasi duenaz, dialektologiak gramatikatik ikas dezakeenaz. In Iñaki Camino (ed.), Eibartik Zuberoara euskalkietan barrena: Koldo Zuazori gorazarre (pp. 115-134). UPV/EHUko Argitalpen Zerbitzua.
Berro, Ane & Beatriz Fernández (2020). (Euskal) bozak: erdikoak, inkoatiboak eta arazleak. Hitzak sarean. In Itziar Laka (ed.), Pello Salabururi esker onez (pp. 39-50). UPV/EHUko Argitalpen Zerbitzua / Servicio Editorial de la UPV/EHU.
Berro, Ane (2019). Non-verbal participles in Basque and Spanish. In Ane Berro, Jon Ortiz de Urbina & Beatriz Fernández (ed.), Basque and Romance: Aligning grammars (pp. 139-175). Brill.
Berro, Ane (2019). (In)transitive verbs: Unergatives and unaccusatives. In Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández & Jon Ortiz de Urbina (ed.), Basque and Romance: Aligning grammars (pp. 139-175). Brill.
Berro, Ane & Ricardo Etxepare (2017). Ergativity in Basque. In Jessica Coon, Diane Massam & Lisa Demena Travis (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity (pp. 782-806). Oxford University Press.
Berro, Ane (2016). On the relation between ergativity, stativity and the verbal configuration of Basque. In Fernández, Beatriz & Jon Ortiz de Urbina (ed.), Microparameters in the grammar of Basque (pp. 39-67). John Benjamins.
Berro, Ane (2015). From adpositions to events. The case of location verbs in Basque. In Lea Nash & Pollet Samvelian (ed.), Approaches to complex predicates (pp. 20-45). Brill.

Online resources

Bilbao, Kristina, Ane Odria, Ane Berro, Josu Landa & Beatriz Fernández (2022). Euskara Bariazioan / Basque in Variation (BiV) 3rd edition. UPV/EHUko Argitalpen Zerbitzua. ISBN: 978-84-1319-456-1.

Talks

Berro, Ane & Kristina Bilbao (2024). Gero ikusiko gara elkar. Hizkuntzen Deustuko Unibertsitateko Foroa. 13th of March, Bilbao, University of Deusto.
Berro, Ane, Kristina Bilbao & Beatriz Fernández (2021). Inkoatibo/arazleak, bihurkari eta elkarkariak eta beste (alegiazko solasaldiak egitura iragangaiztuez). Euskal Hizkuntzalaritza 2021 DU Jardunaldia. 17th of December, University of Deusto, Bilbao.
Berro, Ane & Kristina Bilbao (2021). Inkoatibo/arazleak, bihurkari eta elkarkariak eta beste (alegiazko solasaldiak egitura iragangaiztuez). Euskal Hizkuntzalaritza 2021 DU Jardunaldia. 17th of December, Bilbao, University of Deusto.
Berro, Ane & Beatriz Fernández (2020). Basque mediopassives in the middle. Euskal Hizkuntzalaritza Jardunaldia. 25th of September, Bilbao, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández & Ane Odria (2021). The interaction between the implicit subject and the person restriction in Basque impersonals. 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 30th of August - 3rd of September, Athens, Greece.
Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández & Ane Odria (2021). Arazo pertsonalak dauzka inpertsonaltasunak. Hizkuntzalari Euskaldunen V. Topaketa. Kimu berriak euskal hizkuntzalaritzan.. 2nd of July, Eibar, UEU.
Berro, Ane & Beatriz Fernández (2019). Aditzik gabeko aplikatiboak. Islandieratik euskarara, euskaratik giza hizkuntzara. Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 50. , Pamplona-Iruñea, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2017). Basque adjectival participles are functionally richer. 50th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea 2017. 10th-13th of September, Zürich (Switzerland).
Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández & Itziar Orbegozo (2017). Basque in Variation / Euskara Bariazioan (BiV): An Online Database on Basque Morphosyntactic Variation. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 10th-13th of September, Zurich (Switzerland).
Berro, Ane Beatriz Fernández & Itziar Orbegozo (2017). Euskara Bariazioan / Basque in Variation (BiV): Euskal aldakortasun morfosintaktikoa erakusten duen sareko datu basea. EUDIA-6 WORKSHOP Linguistic variation in the Basque language and Education. 9th of June, Leioa.
Berro, Ane (2017). The syntax and semantics of KA. A cumulative suffix in Basque. IKER UMR 5478 (CNRS). 15th of March, Baiona, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2017). Pluractionals and more. The cumulative suffix KA in Basque. LaGraM Seminar. Structures Formelles du Langage. 13th of March, Paris.
Berro, Ane & Anna Pineda (2017). Aparent unaccusative unergatives in Basque and Romance. Workshop on Voice. 2017/05/22-24, Cambridge.
Berro, Ane (2016). Basque and Romance in contact. The case of some intransitive verbs. Language Contact from an I-Language Perspective. 27th-28th of October, San Sebastian-Donostia, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2016). On the relation between ergativity and the subeventive structure in Basque. LaGraM Seminar. Structures Formelles du Langage. 2nd of May, Paris.
Berro, Ane (2016). Looking for the verbal category in Basque syntax: not found. 42 Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. 18th-20th of February, Lecce (Italy).
Berro, Ane (2015). The ergative subject in Basque: its relation to the predicate and the subeventive decomposition. 25th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. 21st-23rd of May, Baiona, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2013). Zoruak eta sabaiak bat egiten dute ergatiboan. IKER Mintegia. 9th of December, Baiona, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2013). Decomposition of intransitive verbs and ergativity in Basque. Little v. 25th-26th of October, Leiden.
Berro, Ane (2013). Ergatibotasuna, iragangaiztasuna eta aditz laguntzailearen hautaketa euskal hizkeretan. Hizkuntzalari Euskaldunen I. Topaketak. 4th of July, Eibar, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2013). Stative uses of intransitive predicates and case variation: Evidence from Basque varieties. Approaches to Complex Predicates. 29th-31st of May, Paris, France.
Berro, Ane (2012). Statives and Middles in Basque varieties: first steps. Hizkuntzalaritza Formaleko Ikertzaile Gazteen Topaketa. 27th of June, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane & Ane Odria (2012). Intransitivization of reflexive and reciprocal predicates in Basque. The case of bivalent ditransitive predicates. Wedisyn's 3rd Workshop on Syntactic Variation. 22nd-23rd of March, Uviéu-Oviedo, Asturies.
Berro, Ane & Ane Odria (2011). Subject and object case variation: Dialectal evidence from Basque. Variation and Typology: New trends in syntactic research. 25th-27th of August, Helsinki, Finland.
Berro, Ane (2011). Ergative/absolutive case variation in simplex unergative verbs: Evidence from Basque varieties. 6th Athens Postgraduate Conference. 13th-15th of May, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens.
Berro, Ane (2011). Subject case variation and auxiliary alternation in Basque. Syntax/semantics Brown Bag. , New York University (NYU), New York City.
Berro, Ane (2010). Ergative/absolutive case variation in simplex unergative verbs: evidence from Basque varieties. The 7th Workshop on Syntax and Semantics (WoSS). 27th-28th of October, Nantes, France.
Berro, Ane (2010). Ergative and absolutive subjects in bivalent intransitive constructions and alternating object marking. Wedisyn's 1st Workshop on syntactic microvariation. 4th-5th of March, Baiona, Basque Country.
Berro, Ane (2010). Unergative predicates in Basque varieties: consequences for the ergative case assignment. 2nd Leipzig Students' Conference in Linguistics (LESCOL) . September, Leipzig, Germany.

Visiting fellowships

September-November 2011: New York University (NYU) (under the supervision of Professor Richard S. Kayne)

Participation in funded research projects

On argument structure, Voice and morphology in Euskara, the Basque language (Morfeus) (PID2023-147383NB-I00) (Principal Investigator: Beatriz Fernández & Ane Berro).

Gogo Elebiduna/The Bilingual Mind (IT1439-22) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Itziar Laka)

Gogo Elebiduna/The Bilingual Mind (IT1169-19) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Itziar Laka)

Solving the language puzzle: Basque Morphosyntax in Variation (PGC2018-096380-B-I00) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Beatriz Fernández)

Towards a Theory of Syntactic (micro)Variation: Basque and Beyond (FFI2014-51878-P) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Beatriz Fernández)

AThEME – Advancing the European Multilingual Experience EC FP7/SSH-2013-1 AThEME (613465) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Lisa L. Cheng, Leiden University)

Gogo Elebiduna/The Bilingual Mind (IT665-13) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Itziar Laka)

Basque in the Making: a Historical Loot at a Language Isolate (ANR-17-CE27-0011-01) (Principal investigator/Ikertzaile nagusia: Ricardo Etxepare)

Sintaxis comparativa del euskera: hacia una gramática vasca dialectal (Basque Dialect Grammar) (FF2011-26906) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Beatriz Fernández)

Syntactic microvariation in Basque: a theoretic and typological approach (FFI2008-00240/FILO) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Beatriz Fernández)

Gogo Elebiduna/The Bilingual Mind (GIU 09/44-IT414-10) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Itziar Laka)

Gai espezifikoetako ikerketa-taldeak finkatzeko laguntzak (HM-2009-1-25) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Beatriz Fernández)

Conferences

2017: Unergative predicates. Architecture and variation

2016: RALFe 2016 (Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique formelle : Langage, Langues et Cognition)

2013: Towards a Theory of Syntactic Variation

2011: Basque Comparative Syntax (An Encounter with Richard S. Kayne)

2010: 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting. Variation in datives: a micro-comparative perspective

Others

2020-21 Secretary of the Department of Modern Languages and Basque Studies (University of Deusto).

2020 Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Basque Language and Culture and the Double Degree in Basque Language and Culture + Modern Languages (University of Deusto).

2005 Member of the Grammar Commission of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language