The influence of standard basque in Busturialdea. Part 1: demonstrative pronouns

This work presents the influence of Standard Basque in the position of the demonstratives in the Basque variety spoken in Busturialdea. It is a diatopic and sociolinguistic research as it shows the syntactic differentiation between elder (60-80) and youth (20-30) from 20 localities. Data for this research was taken from a more exhaustive PhD research where the linguistic variation from these 20 localities was investigated. A questionnaire was prepared to collect different parts of language such as morphology, phonology, lexicon and syntax and 100 questions were done to 2 informants in each locality. This paper is focused in (hau) variable, exactly in the change between generations according to the position of the demonstrative pronouns. The influence of Standard Basque on vernacular is evident, but this change is happening further and faster than what it was expected.