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. Appositive relative phrases are headed by the complementizer ‑(e)n and the determiner a.
| (1) | Bazen | neskatxa | txiki | bat | ona | zena |
| BA.was | lady | little | one | good.ART | was.EN.ABS | |
| ‘There was a good lady’ | ||||||
Variational pattern. In some varieties the complementizer -en can be headed by the partitive, instead of by the determiner.
| (2) | Bazen | neskatxa | ttipi | bat | ona | zenik |
| BA.was | lady | little | one | good.ART | was.EN.PRTV | |
| ‘There was a good lady’ | ||||||
Chapter: Complementizer
Keywords: appositive relatives, embedding, partitive, relatives, relativizer
de Rijk (1972: 167-169)
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