Irudi aditzak revisited: ergatiborako igoera mendeko perpaus konpletiboetatik

Abstract

This article provides evidence from the Contemporary Dynamic Prose Corpus which shows that raising to ergative is well attested in the three constructions with irudi verbs (i. e. iduri + *edun, synthetic forms of the verb irudi, the verb eman ‘give’ in its ‘seem’ acception). The existence of this type of raising suggests that Basque ergative case is in fact structural, rather that inherent