Features
Blue: variational pattern non-attested
Berro, Ane. 2018b. «Basque adjectival participles: stative, resultative or experiential». Ms., Deustuko Unibertsitatea.
Berro, Ane. 2019a. «Non-verbal participles in Basque and Spanish». In Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Basque and Romance. Aligning grammars. Leiden/Boston: Brill. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395398_005
de Rijk, Rudolf P.G.. 2008. Standard Basque: A progressive grammar. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press.
Generalized pattern. Adjectival participles are not usually combined with time and place modifiers that refer to the event underlying the participle.
(1) | Nire | kotxea | konpondua | dago |
my | car | fix.PTCP.RES | (3ABS)stand | |
‘My car is fixed.’ |
Variational pattern. In some varieties, adjectival participles headed by -a are compatible with time and place modifiers.
(2) | Nire | kotxea | (atzo | goizean / | Joxeren garajean) | konpondua | dago |
my | car ( | yesterday | morning / | at Joxe’s garage) | fix.PTCP.RES | (3ABS)stand | |
‘My car was fixed (yesterday morning / at Joxe’s garage).’ |
Chapter: Aspect
Keywords: aspect, modifiers, participial structures, verb


Berro, Ane. 2018b. «Basque adjectival participles: stative, resultative or experiential». Ms., Deustuko Unibertsitatea.
Berro, Ane. 2019a. «Non-verbal participles in Basque and Spanish». In Berro, Ane, Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Basque and Romance. Aligning grammars. Leiden/Boston: Brill. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395398_005
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