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

Author: Jürgen Etxeberria

Egile beraren beste kapituluak:

i.1. Dative agreement drop: gizonari liburua eman du (v dio)

i.4. Dative Displacement: eman nauzu (v eman didazu)

ii.1. *Edun ‘have’ instead of izan ‘be’ with bivalent unaccusatives: gustatzen nau, gustatzen dizu (v zait, zaizu)

iv.1. Complex postpositions in animate noun phrases: -gan- (v -rengan-)

iv.2. Participial relatives: etorritako, etorririko, etorririkako, etorriniko, etorriko (v etorri)

v.1. Nominalized verb + inessive to express purpose: egiten joan (v egitera joan)

v.2. Animate locatives: baitan (v -gan)

v.3. Ablative/partitive alternation: -(r)ik (v -tik)

v.4. Allative marking: -rat/-lat/-alat (v -ra)

v.5. Terminative marking: ra gino (v -raino)

Cite this page as: Etxeberria, Jürgen. (2022). Dative Displacement: eman nauzu (v eman didazu). 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=7]. 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, dative displacement, datives

References

Fernández, Beatriz. 2001. «On Split Ergativity: Evidence from Basque». In Vivian Lin, Cornelia Krause, Benjamin Bruening and Karlos Arregi (eds.), Papers on Morphology and Syntax. Cycle Two. MITWPL 34. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press. 177-190.

Lafitte, Pierre. 1944. Grammaire Basque (Navarro-Labourdin Littèraire). Baiona: Librairie Le Livre. [Reprinted in 1979. Donostia: Elkar]

Rezac, Milan and Beatriz Fernández. 2013. «Dative Displacement in Basque». In In Beatriz Fernández and Ricardo Etxepare (eds.), Variation in datives: a microcomparative perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. 256-282.