Functional Heads and eventive nominals: the Basque perspective
dc.contributor.author | Artiagoitia Beaskoetxea, Xabier | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-30T16:53:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-30T16:53:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Roczniki Humanistyczne 71, special nº 11, 13-41 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-7707 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2544-5200 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/66962 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article shows that Basque has a few suffixes (-era, -keta, -pen) which give rise to the type of eventive nominals described in the literature (Grimshaw; Picallo; Alexiadou, Functional Structure). Nominals headed by these suffixes are passive-like (cf. Alexiadou, Functional Structure), obligatorily take genitive arguments and are mostly restricted to unaccusative and transitive predicates, but have a very limited eventive reading: they do not take adverbial modification (aspectual modification is realised through adjectives) and adpositional phrases show up with the functional linker -ko, typical of nominal structures (de Rijk, “Basque Hospitality”). A peculiar feature of Basque is that the external argument has genitive case, just like the internal argument; this double genitive structure suggests that Basque has a neutralised case system at the nominal level. On the other hand, Basque has nominalised clauses which admit all kinds of adverbial and PP modification, as well as regular subject case-marking (be it ergative or absolutive); this type of nominalised clauses may have an eventive reading. I propose that Basque nominalised clauses have the structure DP-TP-(NegP)-AspP-VoicePvP- root. For derived event nominals, I claim that Basque only projects up to VoiceP, with the nominaliser selecting a Voice head with a [-external argument] feature (Alexiadou, “Ergativity”). The selection of an unsaturated VoiceP forces the external argument of the root to be projected at the nominal level (Bruening): DP-PossP-NumP-ClassP-nP[ext. argument]-Voice[-ext. arg.]P-vP-Root. Basque grammar resorts to structural case-checking by the head Possesor (de Wit), which attracts all the DPs in its c-commanding domain and creates a multiple-specifier configuration of the kind defended in Richards. The rest of the features displayed by derived event nominals follow from the limited number of verbal functional projections available. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | University of Lublin | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICU/PGC2018-100686-B-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | basque | es_ES |
dc.subject | derived nominal | es_ES |
dc.subject | functional head | es_ES |
dc.subject | event | es_ES |
dc.subject | nominalisation | es_ES |
dc.title | Functional Heads and eventive nominals: the Basque perspective | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2023 The Learned Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin & The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.18290/rh237111-1s | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.18290/rh237111-1s | |
dc.departamentoes | Lingüística y estudios vascos | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Hizkuntzalaritza eta euskal ikasketak | es_ES |
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