Features

Yellow: variational pattern attested
Blue: variational pattern non-attested

(2) Lehen ere Baionan ukhana niz

Generalized pattern. The verb izan 'be' has the resultative participial form izana.

(1)	Lehen ere	Baionan	izana	naiz
	before also	Baiona.INE	be.PTCP.RES	1SG.ABS.be
	‘I have been in Baiona before.’

Variational pattern. In some varieties, the resultative participle ukan(a) is attested instead.

(2)	Lehen ere	Baionan	ukhana	niz
	before also	Baiona.INE	have.PTCP.RES	1SG.ABS.be
	‘I have been in Baiona before.’

Reported in: Oriental varieties of Navarresse-Lapurdian, as in Luzaide Basque (Iñaki Camino, p.c.). Absent at least in occidental and central varieties of Navarresse-Lapurdian (Beñat Oihartzabal, Piarres Xarriton, Maia Duguine and Céline Mounole (p.c.).

Chapter: (In)Transitivity

Keywords: (in)transitivity, auxiliary alternation, participial structures

Notes:

Historical evidence: An alternation also attested when izan 'be' is the copula (in its participial form) of resultative participial predication: ukandubaysen conceviturik '(s)he was conceived' (a prayer written in High Navarresse, 1614) (Céline Mounole, p.c.).