Chapter 19
Antipassivization in Basque revisited
In this paper, we explore three phenomena that
have been considered to be antipassives in Basque linguistics.
First, we briefly review “ergative displacement” (Laka 1988),
related to antipassives as mentioned by Heath (1976). This is not a bona fide
instance of the antipassive, since the ergative displacement affects
only the agreement pattern (the A argument appears indexed as S in
finite verb forms) while the case frame and syntactic status of A
and P are as in the default transitive construction; besides, there
is no demotion or suppression of the P argument. Second, we review
two biclausal constructions, namely the
ari-progressive (Hualde & Ortiz de Urbina 1987;
Laka 2006) and
participial clauses (Ortiz
de Urbina & Uribe-Etxebarria 1991). Although regarded
as antipassives by Postal
(1977) and Coyos
(2002), respectively, their biclausality, long argued by
some Basque linguists, is incompatible with the antipassive, which
is monoclausal by definition. Finally, de Rijk (2003) labels as antipassives
some intransitive constructions that alternate with transitive ones.
This is the closest to true antipassives that can be found in
Basque, but these constructions are lexically constrained and
idiosyncratic, and unlike canonical antipassives attested in other
languages of the world.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Basque
- 3.Ergative displacement
- 4.Biclausal constructions
- 4.1
Ari-progressives
- 4.2Participial clauses
- 5.The lexically constrained antipassive
- 5.1The LCA with psych-verbs
- 5.2The LCA with mintzatu and other verba dicendi
- 6.Discussion and concluding remarks
-
Acknowledgements
-
Notes
-
Abbreviations
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