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Basque light verb constructions

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Although all the possibilities shown in (2) are attested in Basque, they are of unequal frequency. Types (2b) and (2c) are relatively rare and present a high degree of lexicalisation, while LVCs of type (2a) are far more common. The present study is concerned with the (2a) type, and in particular the subset in which the light verb is egin ‘do, make’,1 the most common LV in Basque.2 In some languages (2a)-type constructions in which the nominal element corresponds to an object can represent more than one kind of formation, which may consist of a simple noun (N) or a more complex constituent; in Persian, for example, it may be an indefinite or definite determiner phrase (DP), the latter marked by râ as a specific object:

Source: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo

DOI: 10.1387/asju.4432

Author: Bernard Oyharçabal

Language: Spanish

Topic: Basque language and culture studies

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2285213644

FWCI: 13.77

Cites: 23

Cited by: 10

Related to: 10