Features
Blue: variational pattern non-attested
Euskaltzaindia. 1987. Euskal Gramatika: Lehen Urratsak II. Iruñea: Institución Príncipe de Viana eta Euskaltzaindia. [Reprinted in Euskaltzaindia. 1997]
de Rijk, Rudolf P.G.. 2008. Standard Basque: A progressive grammar. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press.
Generalized pattern. In the protasis, the verb takes prospective aspect to express hypotheticality.
| (1) | Lortuko | balu, | poztuko | ginateke. |
| get.PTCP.PROS | BA.(3ABS).3ERG | make happy.PROS | 1PL.ABS.be.PST.MOD | |
| ‘If she/he achieves it, we would be glad.’ | ||||
Variational pattern. In some Eastern varieties, the verb occurs with imperfective aspect instead.
| (2) | Lortzen | balu, | poz | gintezke. |
| get.IPFV | BA.(3ABS).3ERG | make happy | 1PL.ABS.edin.PST.MOD | |
| ‘If she/he achieves it, we would be glad.’ | ||||
Chapter: Aspect
Keywords: aspect, conditional, imperfective, postposition -KO, prospective
Euskaltzaindia. 1987. Euskal Gramatika: Lehen Urratsak II. Iruñea: Institución Príncipe de Viana eta Euskaltzaindia. [Reprinted in Euskaltzaindia. 1997]
de Rijk, Rudolf P.G.. 2008. Standard Basque: A progressive grammar. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press.
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