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Non Canonical Valency Patterns in Basque, Variation and Evolution
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 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.
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Contributor : Julien Rabaud <>
Submitted on : Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 10:37:23 AM
Last modification on : Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - 2:50:06 PM