Gorka Basterretxea Santiso

2022 (Nominated). Dr. Karen Gale Exceptional PhD Student Award. Graduate Student Awards, Georgetown University.

2018 Charter Department Graduate Student Excellence Award, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Illinois State University.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Basterretxea Santiso, G., Gondra, A., & Gómez Seibane, S. (Accepted). Does Grammatical Gender Exist in Ondarroa Basque? A Triangulation of Production & Attitudes. Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca “Julio de Urquijo”.
• Fernández-Mallat, V., & Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2025). Actitudes lingüísticas hacia el voseo y el tuteo en el español de Medellín y Santiago: un estudio comparativo basado en la técnica imitativa. Lengua y Sociedad: Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, 24(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v24i1.27722
• Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2025). “Fallo garrafal y común entre vascoparlantes:” attitudes and salience of grammatical gender agreement in Basque-Spanish contact. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 18(1), 37-77. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2025-2002
• Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Ornelles, A. (2025). Cross-regional comparison of attitudes and perceptions towards the visual linguistic landscape: Basque Country and Galicia. International Journal of Multilingualism, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2025.2456661
• Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2024). “Aquí toman mucho sopa:” Linguistic Variables as Predictors of Non-Standard Gender Agreement Production in Basque Spanish. Open Linguistics, 10(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0025
• Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2023). The impact of the myths about Spanish and its speakers in the US population. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 100(8), 755-777. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2023.49
• Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2023). Linguistic landscape in a rural Basque area: A case study in Ondarroa. International Journal of Multilingualism, 22(2), 209-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2256781
• Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Sanz, C. (2023). Perspectives and Motives Involved in Study Abroad: Covid, Race, and SES. L2 Journal (special issue edited by Robert Blake: Studying abroad during COVID and beyond), 15(2), 10-28. https://doi.org/10.5070/L215260145
• Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Sanz, C. (2022). Study abroad and student decision making in times of Covid: A mixed methods study. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i1.649
• Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2022). A triangulation study on gender agreement in Spanish by native Basque speakers. Revista Española de Lingüística (RSEL), 52(1), 7-37. https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.52.1.1
• Basterretxea Santiso, G. (2021). La comparación de pronombres de segunda persona del singular en el español peninsular y en el euskera: ¿Una misión imposible? Lingüística y Literatura, 79(1), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a12

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Basterretxea Santiso, G., & Gómez Seibane, S. (Accepted). Euskaldun zaharra vs. euskaldun berria: análisis de variables sociolingüísticas relevantes para la autoidentificación lingüística en el País Vasco. In A. Palacios & S. Gómez Seibane (Eds.), Representaciones, ideologías y estereotipos en situaciones de contacto. Iberoamericana/Vernuert.
• Basterretxea Santiso, G., Hernando, A. P., & Sanz, C. (Accepted). Scholars’ and Practitioners’ Perspectives on Heritage Speakers’ Decisions to Study Abroad: Towards More Inclusive Programs. In A. Morales-Front & C. Sanz (Eds.), Education Abroad: Language, Learners, and Communities (GURT Series). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Conference Proceeding

• Basterretxea Santiso, G., Gonzalez, M., & Johnson, J. G. (Accepted). Lo-a/@/e/xs estudiantes opinan: Actitudes implícitas hacia el lenguaje inclusivo en español. In C. Tocamaiza-Hatch & I. Velásquez (Eds.), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2024 Conference Proceedings. Digital Commons (Elsevier).

External:

2022-2023 National Science Foundation (BCS-2234506), Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant LING-DDRI ($11,923), Dissertation: Linguistic Transfer in Basque Spanish: Gender Agreement Production and Attitudes.

Internal:

2024 Full-Time Faculty Professional Development Fund ($1,955), Office of the Provost, Northeastern University. To work on “Gender Agreement in Basque: Triangulation of Production & Attitudes”.

2024 Global Experience Office Faculty Fellowship (GEOFF) for the 2024-2025 Dialogue of Civilization (DOC) cycle ($7,500). To design a new Dialogue of Civilization in collaboration with Dr. Cristina Pérez-Arranz, Northeastern University, USA.

Spring 2023 Conference Travel Grant ($300), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To attend the conference AAAL 2023 at Portland, Oregon, USA.

Fall 2022 Dissertation Research Travel Grant ($1,830), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To work on the Ph.D. dissertation: “Linguistic Transfer in Basque Spanish: Gender Agreement Production and Attitudes”.

Fall 2022 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference Travel Grant ($500), Georgetown University. To attend the conference LASSO 2022 at Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Summer 2022 Graduate Student Research Award ($2,000), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University. To work on the Ph.D. dissertation: “Gender Agreement in the Basque Country Spanish: Production & Perceptions”.

Spring 2022 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference Travel Grant ($321), Georgetown University. To attend the conference AAAL 2022 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Spring 2022 Conference Travel Grant ($500), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To attend the conference AAAL 2022 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Fall 2021 GradGov Research Project Award (GRPA) ($500), GradGov and the Graduate School, Georgetown University. To work on the Ph.D. dissertation: “Gender Agreement in the Basque Country Spanish: Production & Perceptions”.

2020 Scholarship to attend a 1-week course at MultiLing, the University of Oslo (Sept 7-11), Initiative for Multilingual Studies (Georgetown University) & MultiLing (University of Oslo). (Not able to attend due to Covid-19).

Spring 2020 Conference Travel Grant ($275), The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. To attend the conference ALFALito 2019 at Queens College New York, USA.

Fall 2019 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference Travel Grant ($450), Georgetown University. To attend the conference Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2019) at The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.