Goi-datiboak eta are goragokoak euskaraz: jabe datiboak eta datibo hunkituak vs. datibo etikoak

Abstract

In this paper, we will explore the syntactic behavior of Basque possessor datives and compare them to the ethical ones. To that end, we'll review Borer & Grodzinsky's (1986) classical syntactic tests and show that Basque possessor datives behave similarly to their counterparts in other languages, as Hebrew (also Landau 1999), Spanish and French (Jouitteau & Rezac 2007), among many others. As we will see, dative possessors are high datives (against Pylkkänen 2002/2008), although they are not necessarily merged high. Besides, even higher in the architecture of the sentence are ethical datives (Jaeggli 1982, 1986 among others) and also allocutives (Oihartzabal 1993). Although possessor datives will be the main issue to address, we will also focus on other non-core (high) datives, as affected ones, which behave similarly to possessors and probably occupy the same (high) position in the structure.