Jürgen Etxeberria

Jürgen Etxeberria

Presentation

Since I was a child, I have been interested in travelling and getting to know new languages. So that, I have studied Basque Studies at UPV/EHU (2016-2020) and thanks to the Ikasiker Fellowship of Research (2019-2020), I had the opportunity to collaborate with the research group The Bilingual Mind directed by Itziar Laka. I continued my academic formation coursing the Master program in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (2020-21) where I analyzed the syntactic status of locative adpositions. Currently, I keep analyzing the nature of adpositions with Beatriz Fernández and Ane Berro on the Doctoral Programme in Linguistics (2021-now).

Hizkuntzalaritza eta Euskal Ikasketak Saila (UPV/EHU)

Centro de Investigación Micaela Portilla Ikergunea, Oficina 3.2 Bulegoa
Justo Vélez de Elorriaga, 1
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz

Research interests

Syntactic Theory, locative adpositions, ablative, adlative, inesive, word order, syntactic satus, argument structure.

Papers

Online resources

Talks

  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2025). Alde-rik alde eta ale-z ale aztertutako egitura ba-na-ka batzuk: euskarazko bide metagarrien eta atzizki banatzaileen analisi nanosintaktikoa. Azken Berriak Euskal Gramatikan. 18th of December, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2025). Nora  ibil ezin daitekeena ibil daiteke norantz, ibil daiteke noraezean: The allowance for complex PPs on manner of the motion verbs in Basque. Hizkuntzalari Gazteen Elkartearen XXXIX. Nazioarteko Kongresua. 1st of October, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2025). The effects of Complex PPs on Manner of the Motion verbs: the case of Basque approximative and terminative. Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2025. Thematic session on Motion event construal within and across languages. 6th of June, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2025). The Nanosyntax of Basque spatial adpositions and deictics. Brno Linguistic Circle Seminars. 9th of April, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2025). Leku deixiaren gradualtasunaz Baiona-tik ha-rat-ago eta ezin berta-ra-ago. IKER Linguistic Seminars. 4th of February, IKER Euskara eta Euskal Testuen Ikerketa Zentroa CNRS, Baiona.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2024). Degree modification in Basque spatial PPs: tracking variation within measure phrases. Seminar in Linguistics. 31st of October, SemLin Linguistic Seminars (HiTT Research Group), Vitoria-Gasteiz.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2023). A new morphosyntactic approach to Basque affixes: Describing complex PPs. Affixes Symposium at Turku University. 18th of August, Turku.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2023). Are adpositonal phrases any other than adjunts? A case study on the argument structure of Basque motion verbs. 73. Studentische Tagung Sprachenwissenschaft. 27th of May, Frankfurt am Main.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2023). Euskarazko adposizio-e-tan barna, aldakortasuna sailkatzeko proposamen berri bat. V. Ikergazte. Nazioarteko Ikerketa Euskaraz. 18th of May, San Sebastian-Donostia, Basque Country.
  • Etxeberria, Jürgen (2022). Grammaticalization patterns in Basque adpositions: from body parts to locative cases. 72. Studentische Tagung Sprachenwissenschaft. 5th of November, Hamburg.

Visiting fellowships

March-June 2025: Masaryk University (MUNI). Brno, Czech Republic (under the supervision of Doctor Pavel Caha).

Participation in funded research projects

2024-: On argument structure, Voice and morphology in Euskara, the Basque language (Morfeus) (PID2023-147383NB-I00) (Principal Investigators: Beatriz Fernández and Ane Berro)

2024-2025: Gogo Elebiduna/The Bilingual Mind (IT1439-22) (Principal Investigator/Ikertzaile Nagusia: Itziar Laka)

August 2022-October 2022: Solving the language puzzle: Basque morphosyntax in variation (PGC2018-096380-B-I00) (Principal Investigator: Beatriz Fernández)

January 2022-June 2022: The Bilingual Mind (IT1439-22). Consolidated Research Group of Excellence. (Principal Investigator: Itziar Laka)

Conferences

2025

The limits of Degree Modification in Basque spatial PPs: Variation across Projective and Region adpositions. 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Poster session. Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux: 2025-08-28.

2024

Goal bias in Basque Comparative Adpositions: A Nanosyntactic Approach. 6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics [Poster session]. 6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics, Rethymnon: 2024-07-14.

Others

Languages

Basque (mother tongue), Spanish (mother tongue), English (B2), French (B2), Russian (A2), German (A2).

Grants

  • Basque Government Grants for the Predoctoral Training Program for Non-Doctoral Researchers (2021-2025) [PRE_2023_2_0177]
    Institution: Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Government
  • Ikasiker Research Fellowship (2019-2020) [IkasC_2019_1_0017]
    Institution: Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Government
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