基本説明
This unique collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions - a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics.
Full Description
This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions - a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute attention to properties and paradigms previously overlooked, and the analyses of them in the light of recent advances in syntactic theory make this book a valuable tool for syntacticians, semanticists and morphologists. This work fills a gap in the theoretical study of Basque, and the richness of data presented makes it interesting for any researcher from whatever particular theoretical persuasion. This volume is especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students of comparative grammar, typology, and theoretical linguistics.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Introduction (by Etxeberria, Urtzi); 3. Part I. DPs and quantification; 4. The DP Hypothesis in the grammar of Basque (by Artiagoitia, Xabier); 5. The way the definite determiner affects quantifiers in Basque (and beyond) (by Etxeberria, Urtzi); 6. An overview of Basque measure phrases (by Goenaga, Patxi); 7. Number agreement in Basque: Counting vs. Measuring (by Etxeberria, Urtzi); 8. Synchronic ubiquity of the Basque article -a: A look from diachrony (by Manterola, Julen); 9. Part II. Nominal expressions and predicative configurations; 10. Genitive case and multiple checking in Basque (by Artiagoitia, Xabier); 11. Predication markers in Basque (by Eguren, Luis); 12. Word order in Basque determiner phrases (by Oyharcabal, Benat); 13. Denominal necessity modals in Basque (by Etxepare, Ricardo); 14. Part III. Clausal nominalizations; 15. Basque nominalizations and the role of structural Case in the licensing of null arguments (by Duguine, Maia); 16. Structural dependency and interpretation in Basque nominalized clauses (by Martin, Itziar San); 17. Perception verb complements in Basque (by Arteatx, Inigo); 18. A continuum of deficiency for Basque infinitives (by Haddican, Bill); 19. Language index; 20. Subject index
