Features
Blue: variational pattern non-attested
de Rijk, Rudolf P.G. 1972. «Partitive assignment in Basque». International Journal of Basque Philology (ASJU), VI: 130-73.
Generalized pattern. Noun phrases of emphatic affirmative existential clauses are assigned absolutive case, whether they take an adjective or not.
| (1) | Baditugu | sagar | onak |
| BA.(3ABS).PL.have.1PL.ERG | apple | good.PL.ABS | |
| ‘We have got good apples.’ | |||
Variational pattern. In some varieties, affirmative existential clauses can have a noun phrase headed by the partitive marker if it takes an adjective.
| (2) | Badugu | sagar | onik |
| BA.(3ABS).have.1PL.ERG | apple | good.PRTV | |
| ‘We have got good apples.’ | |||
Chapter: Case and Agreement
de Rijk (1972: 166-167)
de Rijk, Rudolf P.G. 1972. «Partitive assignment in Basque». International Journal of Basque Philology (ASJU), VI: 130-73.
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