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i.16. Neutralization of ergative displacement: emon dostezun (v zeunstan, zenidan)

Author: Endika Legarra

Egile beraren beste kapituluak:

i.1. Differential object marking: ikusi nizun (v ikusi zintudan)

i.5. Me-lui constraint (etorri natzaizu)

i.8. Neutralization of ergative displacement: emon dostezun (v zeunstan, zenidan)

ii.1. Auxiliary roots in non-indicative (di)transitive forms: -gi- (v -za-)

ii.3. Ditransitive auxiliary forms (-i, -ts, -ra)

ii.4. Bivalent intransitive forms: zakidan, dakit (v zitzaidan, zait)

ii.6. Causatives: eragin (v arazi)

Cite this page as: Legarra, Endika. (2022). Neutralization of ergative displacement: emon dostezun (v zeunstan, zenidan) . In Bilbao, Kristina, Ane Odria, Ane Berro, Josu Landa & Beatriz Fernndez (eds.), Euskara Bariazioan / Basque in Variation (BiV) (3. edit.). UPV/EHU Editorial Service. [Available online: https://basqueandbeyond.ehu.eus/biv/?o=chapters&id=1&e=6]. ISBN: 978-84-1319-456-1.

Contents

Keywords

References

i. Case and Agreement

i.1. Number agreement: -z elsewhere

i.2. Number agreement: -(t)z- in dative structures (v -zki-)

i.3. 2^nd person ergative number agreement: -e (v -te)

i.4. 3^rd person plural ergative number agreement: -e (v -te)

i.5. Number agreement: -it in ditransitive constructions (v -zki)

i.6. Number agreement in allocutives: -zki (v -it)

i.7. Number agreement drop: sagarrak jan du (v ditu)

i.8. Dative agreement drop: gizonari liburua eman du (v dio)

i.9. Differential object marking: ikusi nizun (v ikusi zintudan)

i.10. Dative (first) objects in transitive verbs: itxarongo dizut, diot (v itxarongo zaitut, dut)

i.11. Dative Displacement: eman nauzu (v eman didazu)

i.12. Dative marking of the unaccusative causee: etorrarazi dizute (v etorrarazi zaituzte)

i.13. Me-lui constraint (etorri natzaizu)

i.14. Past intransitive structures with dative: jatan (v zitzaidan)

i.15. Past finite verbal forms involving 3^rd person absolutive arguments: Ø (v z)

i.16. Neutralization of ergative displacement: emon dostezun (v zeunstan, zenidan)

i.17. Absolutive marked subjects in some unergative verbs: borrokatu naiz (v dut )

i.18. Eduki ‘possesive have’ and jakin ‘know’ synthetic forms including dative clitics: dekotzu, dakitzu

i.19. Ergative/absolutive syncretism in the plural: -ak (v -ek)

i.20. Dative plural marker: -er, -eri (v -ei)

i.21. Genitive marking of the transitive object with nominalized verbs: ogiaren erostera (v ogia erostera)

i.22. Partitive marker to make emphasis in existential clauses: badugu sagar onik (v baditugu sagar onak)

i.23. Allocutive and addressing forms

i.24. Allocutives beyond declarative clauses: di(n)ala (v duela)

Keywords

agreement/clitics, case, ergative displacement, ergativity, loss of ergative displacement, neutralization of ergative displacement, partial neutralization of ergative displacement

References

Hualde, José Ignacio. 2000. «Bizkaiko kostaldeko hizkerak gaur eta bihar». In Koldo Zuazo (eds.), Dialektologia gaiak. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Arabako Foru Aldundia. 16-25.

Hualde, José Ignacio. 2002. «On the loss of Ergative Displacement in Basque and the role of analogy in the development of morphological paradigms». Lincom Europa 1, 219-230.

Laka, Itziar. 1988. «Configurational heads in Inflectional Morphology: The structure of the inflected forms in Basque». International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology (ASJU) XXII-2. Donostia: Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia. 343-366.

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.