Three levels of root insertion in Basque intransitive verbs
Intransitive verbs in Basque vary depending on their subject case and auxiliary selection: (i) some of them (considered unaccusatives and inchoatives) always have an absolutive subject and an intransitive auxiliary; (ii) others (prototypical unergatives) show diachronic and dialectal variation (abso...
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Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2012-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/89 |