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Non Canonical Valency Patterns in Basque, Variation and Evolution
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Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency. 2017 n° 237
John Benjamins Publishing Company
English Abstract
In standard Basque and in most present-day dialects, coding frames that were exceptional in Old Basque are attested by a sizeble proportion of the verbal lexicon, which results in a system characterized by a typologinally ...Read more >
In standard Basque and in most present-day dialects, coding frames that were exceptional in Old Basque are attested by a sizeble proportion of the verbal lexicon, which results in a system characterized by a typologinally uncommon type of split intransitivity. In this paper, we discuss the factors that may have payed a role in the expansion of ergative encoding and more specifically of the coding frames and , which originally were clearly non-canonical. We argue that the situation observed in present-day Basque implies a change in the constraints underlying the organization of the valency properties of Basque verbs or in their relative ranking.Read less <
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