Microparameters in the grammar of Basque / / edited by Beatriz Fernández, Jon Ortiz de Urbina

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910481011103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Collana: Language Faculty and Beyond : Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, , 1877-6531 ; ; Volume 13
• Disciplina: 499.925
• Soggetti: Basque language - Grammar; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Part 1. Introductory chapters; Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque; 1. Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque; 2. Looking back and moving forward; 3. Contributions to the volume; References; On Basque dialects; 1. Geographical variation and Basque dialects ; 2. Main dialectal phenomena; 2.1 Eastern morphosyntactic features (East vs. Center and West); 2.2 Western morphosyntactic features (West vs. Center and East); 2.3 Dialectal variation in nominal inflectional morphology; 2.4 Dialectal variation in verbal morphology2.5 Derivational morphology; 2.6 Phonological inventory and (morpho)phonological rules; 3. Origin and development of Basque dialects ; 4. The written or "literary" dialects and regional norms; 5. Summary; References; Part 2. Case and Agreement; On the relation between ergativity, stavity and the verbal configuration of Basque; 1. Introduction ; 2. Diastratic variation: Verbal states with ergative subjects; 3. Bare analytic predicates; 4. Generalizing the analysis; 4.1 Verbal states; 4.2 Eventive -tu verbs; 5. Conclusion; References; Datives in Basque bivalent unergatives1. Introduction ; 2. The ; predicates; 3. Bivalent unergative datives and DOM datives; 4. Syntactic behavior of dative objects in bivalent unergatives; 4.1 Dative first objects and secondary predication; 4.2 Dative first objects in impersonal constructions; 4.3 Nominalization genitives; 4.4 Other contexts; 5. Conclusion; References; Differential object marking in Basque varieties; 1. Introduction ; 2. Differential object marking (DOM); 2.1 Spanish DOM; 2.2 Hindi-Urdu DOM; 2.3 The syntax of Basque DOM; 3. Differential Object Marking in Basque; 3.1 Canonical and Differential Object Marking3.2 Dative objects in alternating verbs; 3.3 Conditions and variation of DOM; 3.3.1 Animacy; 3.3.2 Person; 3.3.3 Definiteness and/or specificity; 3.3.4 Properties of the clause: Tense, finiteness, agreement; 3.4 Dialectal distribution; 4. On the syntactic nature of Basque DOM objects; 4.1 DOM objects and depictives; 4.2 ECM: DOM in transitive predication with eduki 'have'; 4.3 Double dative constructions: DOM objects + indirect objects; 4.4 Dative-absolutive alternations: The role of clausal properties; 5. A theory of DOM; 6. Conclusions; ReferencesGaps and stopgaps in Basque finite verb agreement; 1. Introduction to gaps; 2. The Basque agreement complex; 3. Interpretive phi-gaps: Condition B; 4. Syntactic phi-gaps: Locality; 5. The Person Case Constraint; 6. Morphological gaps; 7. 1p+2 gaps and stopgaps; 8. Morphological 1p+2 gaps in Bermeo; 9. At the sources of gaps in Antzuola; References; Part 3. Determiners; Nominals in Basque and their existential interpretation; 1. Introduction ; 2. Standard Basque: Nominals in argument position; 3. Nominals in Souletin ; 3.1 The definite article; 3.2 Existential interpretation; 3.3 Souletin BNs are syntactically DPs