2026-05-17T19:45:56Zhttps://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/oaioai:www.bilketa.eus:ark:/27020/hal-02614687ALL2025-06-05T09:19:22Z https://www.bilketa.eus/ark:/27020/hal-02614687Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER)Epelde, Irantzu (19..-....)Oyharçabal, Beñat (1949-....)HAL, hal-026146872020International audienceThe paper presents the case of ergative marking in code-switching (CS) in the spontaneous speech of Basque bilinguals from either side of the French-Spanish border. Here the focus will be on intrasentential CS. Basque is an ergative-absolutive language while French and Spanish are nominative-accusative languages. According to the naturalistic data collected in the Basque Country, Basque speakers, when switching intrasententially during a conversation, show some clear patterns in the use of the ergative in CS: they use the determiner as the main trigger in ergative marking, as can be clearly observed when the determiner is a French/Spanish one. When it appears on the left of the noun following the French/Spanish pattern, the subject winds up with no ergative marker and the CS is acceptable in any case.https://hal.science/hal-02614687https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-02614687v1/file/07_Epelde_Oyharcabal.pdfArticle de journal | Aldizkari bateko artikuluavignette : https://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/Thumb/image?id=ark:/27020/hal-02614687&mat=articleNumengArchive ouverte HAL | HAL artxibo irekialanguage contactbilingual speechcode-switchingBasque-SpanishBasque- Frenchergative markingLinguistikaLinguistiqueErgative marking in Basque-Spanish and Basque-French code-switching