Features
Blue: variational pattern non-attested
Albizu, Pablo. 1997. «Generalized Person Case Constraint: A case for a syntax-driven inflectional morphology». In Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Amaia Mendikoetxea (eds.), Theoretical issues on the morphology-syntax interface. [Supplements of the International Journal of Basque Lingustics and Philology (ASJU) XL]. Donostia: UPV/EHU. 1-33.
Arregi, Karlos and Andrew Nevins. 2012. Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of Spellout. Dordrecht: Springer.
Bonet, Eulalia. 1991. Morphology after Syntax: Pronominal clitics in Romance. Ph.D. Diss., MIT.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2004. Explaining the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint: a usage based approach, Constructions 2. (Open-access journal at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf.).
Laka, Itziar. 1993a. «The Structure of Inflection: a Case Study in X° Syntax». In José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 21-70.
Rezac, Mian. 2009. «Person restrictions in Basque intransitives». Lapurdum 13. 305-322.
Rezac, Milan. 2008. «The syntax of eccentric agreement». NLLT 26: 61-106.
Rezac, Milan. 2016. «Gaps and stopgaps in Basque finite verb agreement». In Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Microparameters in the grammar of Basque. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 139-192.
Alternative name: Person-Case Constraint, Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint
Generalized pattern. In the presence of a dative clitic, 1st and 2nd person absolutive clitics are banned in ditransitive forms.
| (1) | *Zuk | ni | harakinari | saldu | naiozu |
| you.ERG | I.ABS | butcher.DAT | sell.PTCP | 1SG.ABS.have.1SG.DAT.2ERG | |
| ‘You sold me to the butcher.’ (Laka 1993) | |||||
Variational pattern. Although the constraint does not affect bivalent intransitive forms, both analytical and synthetic, analytical forms including a dative clitic and a 1st or 2nd person absolutive clitic are rare.
| (2) | Ni | zuri | etorri | natzaizu |
| I.ABS | you.DAT | come.PTCP | 1SG.ABS.be.2DAT | |
| ‘I came to you.’ | ||||
Chapter: Case and Agreement
Keywords: Me-lui constraint, Person-Case Constraint, agreement/clitics, case, datives
Albizu (1997), Arregi and Nevins (2012), Bonet (1991), Haspelmath (2004), Laka (1993a), Rezac (2008, 2009, 2016)
Albizu, Pablo. 1997. «Generalized Person Case Constraint: A case for a syntax-driven inflectional morphology». In Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Amaia Mendikoetxea (eds.), Theoretical issues on the morphology-syntax interface. [Supplements of the International Journal of Basque Lingustics and Philology (ASJU) XL]. Donostia: UPV/EHU. 1-33.
Arregi, Karlos and Andrew Nevins. 2012. Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of Spellout. Dordrecht: Springer.
Bonet, Eulalia. 1991. Morphology after Syntax: Pronominal clitics in Romance. Ph.D. Diss., MIT.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2004. Explaining the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint: a usage based approach, Constructions 2. (Open-access journal at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf.).
Laka, Itziar. 1993a. «The Structure of Inflection: a Case Study in X° Syntax». In José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 21-70.
Rezac, Mian. 2009. «Person restrictions in Basque intransitives». Lapurdum 13. 305-322.
Rezac, Milan. 2008. «The syntax of eccentric agreement». NLLT 26: 61-106.
Rezac, Milan. 2016. «Gaps and stopgaps in Basque finite verb agreement». In Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Microparameters in the grammar of Basque. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 139-192.
ABL: ablative
ABS: absolutive
ABSERG: absolutive in Ergative Displacement context
ALL: allative
ALLO: allocutive
APPL: applicative
BN: bounded
CAUS: causative
COMP: complementizer
DAT: dative
DD: dative displacement
DEST: destinative
ED: Ergative Displacement
ERG: ergative
FAM: familiar
F: feminine
GEN: genitive
IPFV: imperfective
INE: inessive
INS: instrumental
M: masculine
MOD: mood
NMLZ: nominalizer
NONFAM: non-familiar (2nd person)
NP: noun phrase
PTCP: participle
PST: past
PL: plural
POST: postposition
PROG: progressive
PROS: prospective
PRTV: partitive
REL: relational postposition
RES: resultative
SG: singular
SOC: sociative
TERM: terminative
UNBN : unbounded