Aditz sintagmaren barne-argumentuen hierarkia komunztadurarik gabeko testuinguruetan

Resumen

The aim of this work is to contribute to clarify the hierarchy of the VP-internal arguments in Basque through the analysis of structures that have not been used with that goal so far. I identify a set of agreementless syntactic contexts —the different -tze nominalizations and participial structures, coordinated constituents, agreementless imperatives, some modal contexts— and compare them to inflected clauses. A systematic analysis of reciprocals in the Euskal Prosa Gaur (EPG) corpus shows that the hierarchy is the opposite in the two structure types, a result that only may be attributed to some transformation at the syntactic level. Constituent order aside, we may also conclude that the lack of overt agreement in all these structures is not a morphological “gap” but the symptom and consequence of the lack of the corresponding syntactic process. If that is right, agreement and Case must be autonomous processes, given that when there is no agreement we must look for the source of Case somewhere else.