Word order and syntactic asymmetries in Basque modal constructions
| Autor: | Ricardo Etxepare, Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Basque |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Fontes Linguae Vasconum, Iss 126, Pp 389-414 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0046-435X 2530-5832 |
| Popis: | This work focuses on a subset of modal constructions in Basque: those involving the necessity modal behar (‘need/must’/‘have to’). Behar can take either a DP or an unin- flected clause as its complement. Uninflected clauses can, in some varieties of Basque, naturally occur preceding or following the predicate. Etxepare and Uribe-Etxebarria (2009) show that the differences in word order correlate with a number of intriguing syntactic asymmetries. In this paper, we extend the relevant observations to include modal stacking, as well as the effect of complement-internal left peripheral elements in the availability of agreement with the matrix auxiliary, which we show to be different for Person and Number agreement. |
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