Bilingualism and the Basque language

This work is part of the research projects FFI2011-29218, FFI2008-03816, FFI2008-04786 and FFI2008-04789, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, project 2011-JSH2-004-1 of the ANR, project AECT Aquitania-Euskadi Euroregion, and has been supported by the research groups IT 486-10 and IT-210-07, both funded by the Basque Government, and the Formation and Research Unit in Theoretical and Historical Linguistics of the University of the Basque Country. The authors would like to thank Iván Igartua, for handing us the sociolinguistic graphics, and the members of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, especially, Roman Ignatiev, for his valuable comments and suggestions to parts of this presentation, as well as the organization of the workshop and the edition of this paper. Special thanks go to David Peterson, who has performed the huge task of revising the English versions of this volume