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Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax
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Abstract Basque is the only non-Indo-European language in western Europe. This fact, and particularly its ergative alignment, make its morphosyntactic structure and its verb different from those of Standard Average European. However, the massive and prolonged influence which Basque has received first from Latin and later from Romance has conditioned the layout of the analytic vps (the open type) in a very curious way. Since Basque synthetic verbs have a template of the type S-vb.root for intransitives and O-vb.root-A for transitives, as opposed to vb.root-A/S for any kind of verb in sae, lexical borrowing of verbs from Latin was impossible. A solution arose when the old periphrastic resultative perfect was grammaticalized in Late Latin as the primary expression of the perfect. This form distinguished intransitive and transitive verbs, so it served as an entry point for Latin and Romance verbal lexicon into Basque, by means of autochthonous auxiliaries.
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The paper argues that Latin and Romance contact profoundly shaped Basque verbal morphosyntax, but direct borrowing of finite verbs was blocked by Basque’s ergative, intransitive/transitive finite templates. The Late Latin periphrastic perfect was replicated as Basque’s analytic perfect, which then served as the model for extending analytic VPs and enabling massive verbal borrowing.
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- Basque’s finite-verb template—S-vb.root for intransitives and O-vb.root-A for transitives—contrasted sharply with the SAE template vb.root-A/S, blocking finite-verb borrowing from Latin/Romance; analytic VPs became the entry point for loan verbs.
- The Late Latin/Romance perfect [past passive participle + ‘be’/‘have’] was replicated in Old Common Basque as [perfective participle + *izan* ‘be’ / *edun* ‘have’], enabling borrowings such as *nekatu* < Lat. *necatu*, *bekatu* < Lat. *peccatu*, *barkatu*, *laudatu*, *begiratu*, *aditu*; *-tu* was a mat-borrowing, while autochthonous *-i* participles reflect pat-borrowing.
- The perfect construction’s semantics followed resultative > perfect > recent/hodiernal past > narrative past; peninsular dialects did not reach the last stage, while continental dialects did. The past-auxiliary construction followed resultative past > pluperfect > narrative past.
- The analytic imperfective present/past and future were not direct replications but extensions of the intr. ‘be’ / tr. ‘have’ auxiliary pattern; the imperfective arose from a progressive [verbal noun + *-n* + *izan*], and the future perhaps from a deontic/genitive periphrasis, possibly calqued on Romance *he de ir/hacer*. The paper also notes 68 synthetic verbs in 15th–16th century Basque according to Mounole’s count, versus 26 in today’s Basque according to Euskaltzaindia.
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- Diachronic contact-linguistic study synthesizing historical sources and prior scholarship rather than presenting a new corpus: Aquitanian inscriptions (1st–3rd c. AD), 10th-century onomastic material, later medieval legal/administrative texts, and 16th–17th-century Basque religious texts such as Leizarraga (1571) and Lazarraga (ca. 1600).
- Main analysis compares Basque finite-verb templates with SAE/Latin/Romance, applies contact-induced grammaticalization and Sakel’s mat-/pat-borrowing distinction, and reconstructs the chronology of analytic VP constructions from pre-Old Common Basque through historical Basque.
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- Stated: specific dates for the developments “pose problems of a complexity which cannot be tackled in this paper”; the future construction’s deontic/genitive origin is a latent hypothesis that “nobody has substantiated” and whose details “would be much more difficult to explain.”
- Stated: Basque was not used as a written language in the Middle Ages, so sources are “few and far between,” mostly lexicon and some noun declension, preventing any influence of Ecclesiastical Latin on Basque syntax and verbal morphosyntax.
- Evident: the account relies heavily on reconstructed pre-Old Common Basque and Old Common Basque stages, later dialect data, and prior authors (Mounole, Trask, Aldai); the relative chronology between the imperfective and future constructions is described as “less straightforward.”
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“Many verbs of the second group come from Latin or Romance through the past passive participle (Lat.laudatu(m) > lauda-tu, etc.) but the suffix -tu has apparently spread to several autochthonous verb-stems to form perfective participles (har-tu 'take' , sar-tu 'go in, take into' , sal-du 'sell' …).”
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“In continental dialects, the tendency is for the same construction to encroach on more distant pasts, thus adding the narrative past -in the sense of perfective action/event in the past -to the aforementioned functions (Lafitte, 1944(Lafitte, /1979: 373): 373).9”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > laudatu(m) habe-o d.
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“In Lazarraga (a 16th century western author), a hodiernal past can already be perceived when using the construction, as shown in (4a).”
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“In continental dialects, in turn, there are some cases in which the construction still preserves its original resultative meaning, objective or subjective with intransitive auxiliaries, possessive with transitive ones,8 as shown in ( 4b) by means of a sentence by Leizarraga (a 16th century eastern, continental author).”
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“By 16th century Basque (see Mounole, 2014: 34-41, 45-56, 295-312), the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present auxiliary] already indicates perfect in all dialects, and hence the way is paved to indicate past -whether near or distant -, a process which is under way in that century and will develop in the following two centuries.”
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“Many verbs of the second group come from Latin or Romance through the past passive participle (Lat.laudatu(m) > lauda-tu, etc.) but the suffix -tu has apparently spread to several autochthonous verb-stems to form perfective participles (har-tu 'take' , sar-tu 'go in, take into' , sal-du 'sell' …).”
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“In fact, the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' past auxiliary] expresses pluperfect in all dialects of 16th century Basque.”
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“Nowadays, the analytic future of the structure [prospective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present auxiliary] is the only construction specialized in expressing this tense.”
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“In the cases of verbs which allow synthetic conjugation (recall that these are also imperfective), the analytic construction takes over the habitual meaning.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 6 The Basque (Analytic) Imperfective Present and Past
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“To put it briefly, the synthetic du-ke and the analytic ukan-en du were in competition to express '(s)he will have' .”
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“The suffix -te/-ke, which in later Basque has grammaticalized as a morpheme of potential mood (or, in eastern dialects, epistemic modality), could cover a wider scope of meanings in 16th century Basque, depending on the context and the type of morphological combination, such as future tense, potential mood or epistemic modality.”
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“This brought about the need for a new (present) progressive construction, which by the 16th century had also become present itself (except with synthetic verbs, see Table 4).”
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“Autochthonous verbs which had synthetic inflection, however, resorted to the autochthonous suffix -i to form the perfective participle”
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“Basque has also had an analytic construction of the structure [prospective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present / past auxiliary], expressing future ever since the 16th century”
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“However, in 16th century Basque, it competed with several other possibilities.”
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“In many autochthonous verbs, the structure of the verb-stem comprises an (*)e-attached to a verbal root, typically of the structure cvc (e-tor 'come' , e-kar 'bring'), or of a combination of a primary structure like this plus a/some prefix(es) (e-ra-kar 'attract') and/or a/some suffix(es) (e-du-ki 'have').”
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“In loan verbs ending in -atu or -itu, in turn, -tu was removed in order to form the verb-stem.”
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“This is the procedure to express the imperfective present and past with most verbs, i.e., those with no synthetic conjugation (like dantzatu 'dance' and kantatu 'sing' in Table 4).”
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“In the few verbs which do have synthetic conjugation and hence allow a synthetic / analytic opposition (like etorri 'come' and ekarri 'bring' in Table 4), the analytic construction expresses some kind of habitual meaning ('usually' , 'every day' …).”
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“In 16th (and in fewer cases 17th) century Basque, however, the same construction is used in some few functions which are not subjunctive but indicative, the most prominent of which are, in the present, realis conditional protases (etor ba-da-di 'if (s)he comes' , ekar ba-de-za 'if (s)he brings'), and, in the past, the narrative past -in main clauses”
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“In loanwords borrowed from the past passive participle of Latin, the verbstem is formed by removing -tu: kanta-tu → kanta.”
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“In today's Basque, with the exception of some archaism maintained in far eastern dialects, by means of the construction [verb-stem + *edin / *ezan present or past auxiliary (+ -teke, -ke)], one expresses subjunctive notions in subordinated clauses, mainly final, completive and jussive.”
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“As for the analytic construction as a whole, it is reasonable to think that Basque acquired the construction [participle + 'be / have' present auxiliary] to express a perfect -resultative in origin -because of the influence of Late Latin and/or Romance.”
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“Even when a Basque (mostly religious) written tradition begins in the 16th and 17th centuries, in the great majority of works which are translations of other religious texts -Christian doctrines, catechisms, devotional works, etc. -, the source language is Spanish or French, not Latin.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 2 Sources, the Nature of Latin and Romance Influence, Periodization
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“As shown, the periphrastic perfect is the cornerstone of the whole process.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 1 Introduction1
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“As for the grammatical structure, even if Basque has gone its own way due to its structural differences, that way has run parallel to the one of neighboring Romance and more generally of Standard Average European (= sae),2 as shown in the following sections.”
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“Finally, for any finite verb, be it the auxiliary of an analytic construction or a synthetic one, voice and grammatical relations in general are expressed by the use of four different sets with four different valencies: monovalent intransitive (marker for S), bivalent intransitive (markers for S and Rec), bivalent transitive (markers for A and O), trivalent transitive (markers for A, O, and Rec).”
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“Despite all these differences, and although it is technically a language isolate, Basque has been anything but linguistically isolated in the course of the last twenty centuries.”
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“Now, the fact that the participles of the first group (-tu participles of Latin/Romance origin) and those of the second group (autochthonous -i participles) have ended up in complementary distribution suggests that, when Basque replicated the analytic perfect of Latin, a set of autochthonous verbal elements was coupled with the past passive participle.”
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“The perfective participles can be divided basically into three groups, according to their morphological formation: 1) those which are formed by adding -i to the verb-stem (etorr-i 'come' , ekarr-i 'bring' …); 2) those which are formed by adding -tu to the verb-stem (kanta-tu 'sing' , dantza-tu 'dance' , senti-tu 'feel, notice' , har-tu 'take' …); and 3) those in which the verb-stem and the perfect”
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“Such a difference in morphological structure of finite verbal forms must have been of crucial importance for the structuring of Latin and Romance influence, as it blocked the borrowing of finite verbal forms.”
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“This was a strong functional motivation for its replication.”
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“A final issue to consider is the original function and the later development of the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' past auxiliary], with past auxiliaries (see Table 3), also replicated by Old Common Basque.”
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“In Spanish, this agreement did not cease to exist until the 13th-15th centuries (see Penny, 1991Penny, /1998: 159): 159).”
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“The solution has turned out to be the development of a robust analytic system, which covers all possible tam values required by any verb and hence allows massive borrowing, and in which a non-finite form with a simple morphology hosts the borrowed verbal lexeme, whereas the complex morphology brought about by the intransitive/transitive distinction is expressed by an autochthonous finite form.”
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“As Aldai highlights, western dialects are clearly innovative on this point, since it is fairly clear that they have developed a tendency to express some intransitive predicates through unergative constructions.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 3 General Features of Basque: Is it Morphologically Ergative?
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“At least regarding the transitive compound perfect, this grammaticalization is usually set in about the 4th-6th centuries (see Väänänen, 1968Väänänen, /1995: 229: 229, with examples of Saint Augustine, Gregory of Tours, and Oribasius), although the scope of the process may have varied depending on many factors.”
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“Even more important for the issue at stake, this has prevented the occurrence of any influence of Ecclesiastical Latin upon the syntax and verbal morphosyntax of Basque.”
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“As Aldai (1998) already envisaged, this must also have been the original function of the construction in Basque.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > laudatu(m) habe-o d.
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“The resultative meaning and the consequent relevance for the present, though, lingered as long as the participle agreed in gender and number with the subject in intransitive constructions and with the object in transitive ones, from which moment on these could move on to show a past of various kinds.”
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“The perfect construction, then, could be used as an entry point for Latin-Romance lexicon to get into Basque, which enabled the borrowing of loan verbs such as nekatu 'get tired' (< Lat.necatu), bekatu 'sin' (< Lat.peccatu), barkatu 'forgive' (< past passive participle of Lat.parco), laudatu 'praise' (< Lat.laudatu), begiratu 'look at, observe; beware' (< Lat.vigilatu), aditu 'listen to;”
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“Note that, unlike in sae, the intransitive/transitive distinction is crucial for the layout of argument markers within finite verbal forms, because it splits all these into two well-defined types, with two different morphologies.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > da-kar-t pres-bring-1sga 'I bring' b.
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“This is doubly interesting, first because -tu is the closest thing Basque has to an inflectional morpheme borrowed from Latin/Romance (see Gardani, Arkadiev and Amiridze, 2015, for a cross-linguistic overview of borrowing of inflectional morphemes), secondly because both allomorphs imply a combination of two kinds of borrowing: of concrete phonological matter in the case of -tu, of a functional”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > da-kar-t pres-bring-1sga 'I bring' b.
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“Moreover, its analytical structure, with the lexical component hosted in a non-finite verb and kept away from the morphological intricacies of the auxiliary, was exactly what Basque needed in order to overcome the morphotactic clash between its finite verb and that of Latin-Romance (see Table 2).”
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“Within this temporal range, the terminus post quem for the replication of the construction from M to R -i.e., from Latin/Romance to Basque -must be its grammaticalization as a perfect in M, with intransitive and transitive verbs in complementary distribution.”
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“Despite this and some other conservative attestations in 16th and 17th century continental authors in which the perfect construction holds on to its original resultative meaning, in the long run the semantics of this construction has developed further in continental or French territory than in peninsular or Spanish territory.”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > laudatu(m) habe-o d.
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“This is an important point for our discussion: unlike most neighboring Romance languages, Basque was never used, during the Middle Ages, as a written language.”
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“From then on, the territory corresponding to the modern Basque Country was Romanized, and, while this Romanization was deeper in the plains like the Ebro Valley than in the mountainous regions closer to the Atlantic Ocean, all Basque dialects do show evidence of massive lexical borrowing covering practically every semantic realm (see Trask, 1997: 259-261).”
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“A further problem was that, unlike in noun inflection -and unlike the finite verbal morphology of sae -, the Basque verb conjugation has prefixes as argument markers, which must have been another hindrance to borrow finite verbs from Latin and Romance.”
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“It started off as a marked intransitive periphrasis expressing progressivity”
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“It appears, then, that in Basque the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' past auxiliary] has gone a step further than in Standard Average European.”
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“In modern Standard Basque and in central dialects, the verbal noun -t(z)e and the imperfective participle -t(z)en are formed by adding -te(n) to sibilant-ending and -n-ending verb-stems (ikus-ten 'seeing' , egi-ten 'doing' , etc.), and -tze(n) to the rest of the verb-stems (etor-tzen 'coming' , ibil-tzen 'walking' , kanta-tzen 'singing' , etc.).”
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“We can conclude, then, that it was not a replication, but the extention of a pattern acquired or at least reinforced in a previous replicating process.”
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“Unlike the periphrastic perfect, the structure [imperfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present / past auxiliary] did not come about as the result of any replication, but as an original construction with no parallels in neighboring Romance.”
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“The future construction is also later than the perfective construction”
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“In the function under discussion, however, some competing forms ended up as allomorphs (see Urgell, 2006).”
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“In the preceding sections, it has been shown how Latin and Romance influence has been crucial for the configuration of the whole Basque verbal morphology”
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“the imperfective is later than the perfective”
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“According to both Aldai (2009b) and Mounole (2014), the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' past auxiliary] would have been first mainly associated to subordinate clauses.”
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“The relegation of such constructions to a morphological subjunctive also entailed their syntactic relegation.”
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“This is apparently a back formation, generated by the analogy with the process ekarr-i (perfective participle) → ekar (verb-stem) in autochthonous verbs.”
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“Similarly to what occurs in neighboring languages, in modern Standard Basque the imperfective present and past cover habitual, gnomic, planned future notions, and pure present or past notions with stative verbs.”
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“This suggests that, like the construction [imperfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' auxiliary], it must have arisen at some point in the dialectal period, after Old Common Basque.”
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“even though the only construction which Basque has replicated as such has been the perfect one.”
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“I believe that the key point to understand this process whereby analytic vps became the productive pattern is the need to borrow vocabulary, and particularly verbal vocabulary.”
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“As loan verbs grew in number, but had no possibility of being conjugated synthetically, a pressure arose to extend the analytic model of the compound perfect and of the construction [verb-stem + *edin / ezan auxiliary] to express more tam notions.”
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“there is also strong evidence that, before borrowing the perfect construction, Basque already had another analytic construction, arisen and developed on internal grounds.”
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“The origin of today's imperfective construction, then, must have been very similar to that of the present continuous in English, the development of which is well attested since Old English.”
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“the two-fold system of auxiliaries was extended from the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present / past auxiliary].”
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“All this means that, at some point in the Middle Ages (after Old Common Basque, hence in a dialectal period), Basque developed a progressive construction.”
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“This situation does not greatly differ from the one of 16th century Basque (see Mounole, 2014: 27-34).”
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“As for the origin of this imperfective construction, Mounole (2008), refining Trask (1995), has hit upon an elegant explanation to account for it.”
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“Originally, both joa-te-n da '(s)he is going (lit.(s)he is on going)' and *egi-te-n da '(s)he is doing (lit.(s)he is on doing)' would have been intransitive progressive periphrases.”
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“In the other constructions (progressive > present, and future), rather than a replication, what occurred was the extension of the pattern intr.aux.'be' / tr.aux.'have' to further periphrastic structures that arose in medieval Basque, in a process as a result of which they became analytic vps.”
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“The massive borrowing of past passive participles turned the suffix -tu into a productive suffix to form verbs.”
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“Nowadays, in peninsular dialects under the pressure of Castilian, the analytic construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present auxiliary] entails hodiernal past, just as in (4a), or action/event/ state within the time frame indicated by an adjunct included in the same clause, besides perfect itself.”
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“In the 16th century, both competitors are on the wane in this function, and this is taken over by the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' past auxiliary], a process which is practically accomplished in nearly all dialects by the 17th century.”
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“However, by the same period, and likewise in all dialects, the construction is also indicating narrative past, yet in this function it competes with: a) past synthetic forms, some of which can contextually express narrative past in 16th century Basque (e.g., 16th c. nekarren 'I brought (aor.)~ I brought (ipfv.)'> 21st c. nekarren 'I brought (ipfv.)'),and b) the analytic construction [verb-stem + *”
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“today's Basque has a set of marked moods (potential, subjunctive, and imperative), which in analytic constructions are expressed morphologically”
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“The resultative meaning is still present in some (Basque) eastern attestations of the 16th century.”
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“Roughly, in the west -ko is used, in the east -(r)en is used (-ren after vowels), and in a central area -ko is added to vowel-ending, -en to -n-ending perfective participles”
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“Eventually, ukan-en du has prevailed in this function, whereas du-ke has been fenced into potential or epistemic functions.”
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“Most verbs for which at least a synthetic form is attested belong to this type.”
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“This phenomenon has no parallel in neighboring Romance languages nor in (at least western) sae, where potentiality and/or epistemic notions are expressed by modal (but independent) verbs.”
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“The prospective participle is formed by adding -ko or -(r)en to the perfective participle.”
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“The auxiliary always bears the suffix -(a/e)n or -(a/e)la.”
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“Both forms of the prospective participle are identical with one of the two genitives Basque has: -ko is the local genitive (e.g., Bermeo-ko 'of Bermeo'), -(r)en the possessive one (e.g., Peru-ren 'Peru's').”
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“These moods are formed through a distinct set of auxiliaries, built upon roots different from the ones of izan 'be' (intr.)and *edun 'have' (tr.), with no apparent correspondence in neighboring Romance languages, namely: *edin and *ezan”
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“This was attached to loan verbs as well as to some autochthonous elements (har-tu, sar-tu, sal-du, etc.).”
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“It cannot be by chance that the neutral form of Basque verbs -as found in dictionaries or word-listing contexts -is the perfective participle, again unlike in neighboring languages.”
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“Both these functions are in retreat at that time, ousted by the synthetic or analytic forms of the present with the finite verb suffixed by ba-'if' , and by the thriving construction [perfective participle + izan / *edun past auxiliary], respectively.”
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“From the point of view of the inner linguistic structure, it is the only language with an ergative alignment in its morphology, with Object (= O) agreement within the finite verb, and with Agent-Object-Verb (= aov) as the unmarked order of constituents within the clause.”
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“Its word order is mostly patterned according to the Modifier-Head type: Verb-Auxiliary, Genitive-Noun, Relative.Clause-Noun, and Noun-Postposition (= VAux, gn, RelN, and NPo), but also Noun-Adjective (= NAdj, traditionally considered an order of the Head-Modifier type, although this correlation has been disputed).”
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“The semantic development of the periphrastic perfect in Basque has run parallel to that of Romance languages, with the resultative meaning going along the pathway > perfect > near past > distant past, and reaching different phases of that progression depending on geography and period.”
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“However, in today's Basque all of them have imperfective semantics.That means that, in order to express perfective and prospective or future predicates, one has to resort to analytic constructions even with these verbs.”
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“This development of the construction [perfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present auxiliary] is very similar to the one of neighboring languages, with the continental 8 I am adopting Nedjalkov and Jaxontov's (1988) classical terminology, also employed by Mounole (2014).9 This extension has been traditionally explained through French influence, where e.g., il est allé has evolved to”
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“Handbooks (see e.g., Lausberg, 1962Lausberg, /1988: 319-325) : 319-325) describe the rise of the periphrastic perfect as a long process which starts in Classical Latin itself -if not earlier -, as a periphrasis limited, in transitives, to a handful of verbs, the accomplishment of which can imply the possession expressed by habere (as in equitatum ex omni provincia coactum habeo; Caes.BGall. 1, 15,”
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“secondly because both allomorphs imply a combination of two kinds of borrowing: of concrete phonological matter in the case of -tu, of a functional and semantic morphological pattern in the case of -i (mat-borrowing and pat-borrowing respectively, in the terminology coined by Sakel, 2007).”
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“Hence, Old Common Basque was closer to a pure ergative system, the morpho-syntactic marking of which was based primarily on valency.”
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“Mounole (2014: 296-302) has summarized the evolution of the perfect construction as outlined in (5).”
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“Its non-marked word order is theoretically aov, although this is not strict (in fact, in many corpus analyses, the opposite is true).”
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“In the replicating process from M to R, to use Sakel's (2007) terms, the participle-to-participle would be: a mat-borrowing when the Late Latin past passive participle -tu was borrowed as such, as from ( 3c) to ( 3d); and a pat-borrowing when it was replicated by means of an autochthonous perfective participle, as from ( 3a) to ( 3b); the replication of the auxiliaries 'be' / 'have' would be also”
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“Its intransitive counterpart came from passive-intransitive expressions like res cognita est, which also indicated the resulting state and ended up in complementary distribution with the transitive perfect constructions.”
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“Mounole (2014: 303-304) summarizes the evolution of the construction as outlined in (6).”
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“From the point of view of the contrast between Basque and sae, the sets with a Rec marker are not meaningful, as they arose as a result of an inner development with no clear match in neighboring languages, and they were not affected by the Latin-Romance influence either.”
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“However, the number of unergative verbs is large enough for some analysts to consider it a split-S language (whatever the terminology).”
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“In Basque, the intr./tr.opposition and the peculiar disposition of S/O/A markers makes the job too difficult for synthetic inflection.Hence, analytic conjugation is required not only to form e.g.irrealis conditional apodoses (the Basque correspondence of Konjunktiv ii, as in inspiratuko luke '(s)he would inspire'), but also the standard present form, as in inspira-tzen du '(s)he inspires' .”
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“Most Basque VPs -in the functional sense -are analytic and comprise a nonfinite verb which contains the verbal lexeme and an overt or covert morpheme expressing tam values, plus an auxiliary verb which contains more tam morphemes, again overt or covert and amalgamated or not, and also the argument markers for A, S, O and Rec (= Recipient).”
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“Let us recall that this is roughly the period attributed to Old Common Basque.”
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“Since Mitxelena (1981Mitxelena ( /1987)), it is generally assumed that modern Basque dialects do not date back to Antiquity and that some coincidences between their geographic distribution and the tribe division made by Ptolemy in the 2nd century ad and some other authors are purely incidental.”
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“Basque is an agglutinative language, which marks grammatical relations by means of case suffixes.”
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“Basque is, in principle, morphologically ergative.”
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“Instead, Mitxelena proposed that modern dialects may have had their starting point approximately in the 5th-6th centuries, simultaneously with a series of events like: a) the disappearance of all pre-Roman languages in neighboring areas except Basque itself, which suddenly became a linguistic island surrounded by (pre-)Romance languages, b) the socio-political upheavals typical of Late Antiquity,”
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“All those factors must have brought about some kind of common linguistic awareness which perhaps fostered a koiné.This is what is referred to as Old Common Basque (= ocb) in later research.”
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“Most unergative verbs fall into one of these three groups (see Aldai, 2009a).3Firstly, we have X egin compounds like lo egin 'sleep' , korrika egin 'run' , negar egin 'cry, weep' .”
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“In addition, there is a closed class of verbs which allow synthetic conjugation.4These strong verbs belong to the nuclear lexicon of the language ('be' , 'have' , 'go' , 'come' , 'walk' , 'carry' , 'bring'), and are not borrowed.”
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“Nobody has succeeded, though, in establishing a semantic definition which always rightly predicts whether a particular predicate will be unergative or unaccusative.”
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“In the present, the function of expressing realis conditional protases is taken over by present forms (synthetic or analytic, and also prefixed by ba-'if'), whereas, in the past, the expression of the narrative past is taken over by the construction [perfective participle + izan / *edun past auxiliary], whose original function -later still kept, in many varieties in competition with other forms -”
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“when in Late Latin or Common Romance a compound perfect was grammaticalized which consisted of a past passive participle of simple morphology and an auxiliary verb, this was most welcome in Old Common Basque and was felt as the right entry point for Romance lexicon, inasmuch as that sector of the verbal morphology was sensitive to the intransitive / transitive opposition also in the donor language”
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“To begin with, the genitive idea is not among the most frequent sources of futures (see Bybee et al., 1994: 251-253, where Basque is the only case)”
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“To sum up, pre-Old Common Basque must have already had an analytic construction of the structure [verb-stem + *edin 'come' / *ezan 'have-2' present and past auxiliary], which has no parallel in Latin and must be an internal development.”
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“Once replicated, the meaning of this construction ran parallel to that of Romance, functioning as a resultative perfect until the last centuries of the Middle Ages, and becoming a past from then on.”
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“Along with synthetic verbs, it must have covered all tam functions allowed by the verbal system.”
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“This pattern with intr.'be' / tr.'have' auxiliaries was later analogically transferred to other constructions in order to create more tam possibilities formed analytically, i.e., to an emerging intransitive progressive periphrasis, and to a periphrastic future.”
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“Before beginning to borrow any grammatical structure from Latin and/ or Romance -not necessarily before borrowing any linguistic element nor of having any linguistic contact -, Basque verbal morphology had, most probably, at least two kinds of vps: synthetic forms and analytic forms of the structure [verb-stem + *edin / *ezan auxiliary].”
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“The Romance deontic periphrastic construction had the afore-mentioned formal advantages and was semantically close to the future (a primary need in a tense-prominent language), so it served the task of making the whole verbal system coherent, finally ousting all the competing structures to express the future”
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“The creation of a subjunctive, which basically occurred between the 15th and the 17th centuries, may have been motivated, or encouraged, by the influence of Romance.”
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“The result was a massive borrowing of words at all levels.”
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“Now, there was nothing to prevent nouns, adjectives or adverbs from entering Basque and taking part in this process, as these elements have no prefixes in today's Basque nor could they have had them at the time of the first borrowings.”
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“Let us now examine the construction [imperfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present / past auxiliary], which is of later formation than the one considered in Section 5, and has no parallel in neighboring Romance languages.”
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“it is older than the ones of Sections 5-7, and must have existed in pre-ocb.”
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“(a process which perhaps has to be understood within a drift of the language as a whole from aspect-prominence to tense-prominence).”
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“Verbs, by contrast, were left out of the process for the reason put forward in Section 4: some of the argument markers were prefixed, and the morphological template was different in intransitive and transitive verbs, unlike in the donor language.”
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“In these circumstances, the perfect construction came up as a solution which could serve as a cornerstone to introduce verbal lexemes into the language, as it hosted these in a morphologically simple participle, while the messy morphology was seen to by an autochthonous auxiliary.”
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“Finally, the prevailing of the construction [prospective participle + izan / *edun auxiliary] as the expression of future over synthetic and analytic verbal forms suffixed by -te/-ke brought about the specialization of these as potential or epistemic, and hence the creation of a morphologized potential mood.”
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“I also believe that the preponderant role that the perfective participle has among non-finite forms in modern Basque may be a remnant of that stage at which the analytic perfect was the entry point for Latin/Romance verbal vocabulary to get into the language.”
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“Since the imperfective participle is an originally derivational suffix implying 'time of' , or action, to which -n is attached, and since -n is the inessive marker (as in Bermeo-n 'in Bermeo'), Trask proposed that egi-te-n 'doing' was, in origin, 'on doing' .”
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“Later, the verbal noun in the inessive would have been reanalyzed as part of the vp, and, by analogy with the perfect periphrases (joan da '(s)he has gone' vs. egin du '(s)he has done'), the intransitivity/transitivity of the auxiliary would have been determined by the lexical verb of the construction.”
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“from a cultural point of view the Basque-speaking population did not escape a thorough Romanization in many realms.”
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“By a process which is under way at the beginning of the written tradition (16th century), the construction [verb-stem + *edin / *ezan auxiliary] -without -te/-ke -is fenced into subjunctive functions, suffixed by -(a/e)n or -(a/e)la and restricted to subordinate clauses, thus giving rise to a morphologized subjunctive”
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“the relative importance of synthetic forms must have been much larger in this period”
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“It has nothing to do, however, with the rise of a Basque written tradition, the translation of Spanish and French texts into Basque, etc., as one might think regarding the synchronicity of events (see Mounole, 2014 andAldai, 2009b, for more details on this issue).”
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“(d) constructions of the type [verb-stem + *edin / *ezan present auxiliary + -te/-ke], (e) constructions of the type [present participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present auxiliary + -te/-ke].”
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“The functional motivation for this may have been that the synthetic forms antecedent of the present forms (e.g., nator 'I come' , dakart 'I bring' , etc.), originally progressive themselves, were becoming present”
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“Later, it would have gone through the process outlined in (2) of Section 5, the last stage of which implied their prevalence in main clauses, thus limiting [verb-stem + *edin 'come' / *ezan 'have-2' past auxiliary] -without -te/-ke -to subordinate clauses with a finite verb suffixed by -(a/e)n or -(a/e)la.”
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“When Old Common Basque replicated the Late Latin structure [perfective participle + 'be' / 'have' present or past auxiliary], and Medieval Basque created more analytic constructions by extending the auxiliaries 'be' / 'have' to them, the construction [verb-stem + *edin 'come' / *ezan 'have-2' present and past auxiliary] was progressively relegated to subordinating contexts and to the expression of”
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“The suffix -te, which appears in all dialects in a varying number of contexts, was originally a derivational suffix implying 'time of' (as in euri-te 'rainy season').”
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“Likewise, another periphrasis formed by the perfective participle to which the local or possessive genitive was attached, plus a set of auxiliaries which are more difficult to guess -but certainly izan and/or *edun, i.e., the historically indicative ones -, gave rise to a future construction, perhaps deontic in origin and replicated from a Romance model, which in historical Basque would prevail as”
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“this rendered the borrowing of verbs impossible, due to the incompatibility of finite-verb templates, Basque being sensitive to the intransitive / transitive opposition.”
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“after Urgell (2006) most agree that the large dialectal diversity of forms of the verbal noun argues in favor of a particularly late grammaticalization of the progressive construction [verbal noun + -n 'on' + izan 'be' present / past auxiliary], which turned into [imperfective participle + izan 'be' / *edun 'have' present / past auxiliary].”
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The influence which Basque has received has been mainly that of Gascon.
“To begin with, the influence which Basque has received has been mainly that of Gascon, where the construction is not used to indicate narrative past.”
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In Gascon, the perfect construction is not used to indicate narrative past.
“To begin with, the influence which Basque has received has been mainly that of Gascon, where the construction is not used to indicate narrative past.”
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In Romance languages and more generally in Standard Average European, the construction [perfective participle + past auxiliary] expresses the pluperfect.
“In Romance languages, and more generally in Standard Average European, this construction expresses the pluperfect, whether past in the past, or perfect in the past holding on to the original resultative meaning.”
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Dialectal diversity of a form implies a later age of grammaticalization.
“because the imperfective participle displays dialectal diversity, and hence must be later than ocb”
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§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 10 Conclusion
“etortzen naiz 'you come (hab.)'”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 10 Conclusion
“-etor-tzen n-a-iz come-ipfv 1sgs-prs-aux 'I usually come'”
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§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > Past
“[egin-go] [du] > [egingo du] > [egiten du] '(s)he has of doing > (s)he will do'”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > 6 The Basque (Analytic) Imperfective Present and Past
“*[egi-te-n] [da] > *[egi-ten da] > [egiten du] '(s)he is doing > (s) he does'”
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§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > da-kar-t pres-bring-1sga 'I bring' b.
“1) those which are formed by adding -i to the verb-stem (etorr-i 'come' , ekarr-i 'bring' …); 2) those which are formed by adding -tu to the verb-stem (kanta-tu 'sing' , dantza-tu 'dance' , senti-tu 'feel, notice' , har-tu 'take' …)”
§ Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax > da-kar-t pres-bring-1sga 'I bring' b.
“the participles of the first group (-tu participles of Latin/Romance origin) and those of the second group (autochthonous -i participles)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Martínez-Areta, M.
- Affiliations
- Professor of Basque Philology, Faculty of Letters, University of the Basque Country (upv/ehu), Vitoria/Gasteiz, Spain, miguelmzareta@netscape.net
- Venue
- Journal of Language Contact
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2022-08-23
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 497-523
- ISSN
- 1877-4091 (ISSN-L)
- 1955-2629
- OpenAlex
- W4293589104
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 22
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Language Contact (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Basque language and culture studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- Basque language, Latin influence, Romance influence, verb morphology, ergative alignment, perfect tense, grammaticalization, lexical borrowing, auxiliary verbs, verb valency, language contact, non-Indo-European languages
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