My research focuses on language change, syntax and language contact
particularly as these relate to Basque and dialects of English.
Publications
Selected publications
W. Haddican & B. Plunkett (eds) (in preparation) Formalising syntactic variability.
Haddican, B. (to appear). Mid Vowel Raising and Second Vowel Deletion in Oiartzun Basque. (With P. Foulkes). To appear in a volume edited by X. Artiagoitia and J. A. Lakarra.
Haddican, B. (to appear). Euskal perpausaren oinarrizko espez-buru-osagarri hurrenkeraren aldeko argudio batzuk (Some arguments for an underlying spec-head-complement order for the Basque Clause.) In Antisimetriaren Hipotesia vs Buru Parametroa: euskararen hitz hurrenkera ezbaian (ed.) X. Artiagoitia and A. Elordieta. Gasteiz: U. of the Basque Country.
Haddican, B. (to appear). On Egin: Do-support in Basque. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Haddican, B. (to appear). Suburbanization and Language Change in Basque. Language in Society 36.
Haddican, B. (to appear). The Structural Deficiency of Verbal Pro-forms. York Papers in Linguistics. Linguistic Inquiry.
Haddican, B. (2005). Aspects of Language Variation and Change in Contemporary Basque, NYU Dissertation.
Haddican, B. (2005). Two Kinds of Restructuring Infinitives in Basque, Proceedings of WCCFL 24.
Haddican, B. (2005). On Egin: Do-Support And Verb Focalization In Central And Western Basque, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Proceedings of PLC 29.
Haddican, B. (2005). Standardization and Language Change in Basque, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Selected papers from NWAV 33.
Haddican, B. (2005). Standardization, Functional Shift and Language Change in Basque, Estudios de Sociolinguistica, 5(2).
Haddican, B. (2004). Affirmation and Weak Islands, Snippets, 9:9-10.
Haddican, B. (2004). Sentence Polarity and Word Order in Basque, The Linguistic Review, 21(2):81-124.
Szabolcsi, A. and B. Haddican. (2004). Conjunction Meets Negation: A Study in Cross-linguistic Variation, Journal of Semantics, 21(3): 219-249.
Haddican, B. (2003). Dialect Contact in a Southern Basque Town, Language Variation and Change, 15(1):1-35.