Datives with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque

Author:

Fernández Beatriz1ORCID,Zúñiga Fernando2ORCID,Berro Ane3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) , Unibertsitateko ibilbidea 5 , 01006, Vitoria-Gasteiz , the Basque Country

2. Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern , Laenggassstrasse 49 , 3012, Bern , Switzerland

3. Modern Languages and Basque Studies, University of Deusto , Unibertsitate Etorb. 24 , 48007, Bilbao , The Basque Country

Abstract

Abstract This paper explores the formal expression of two Basque dative argument types in combination with psych nouns and adjectives, in intransitive and transitive clauses: (i) those that express the experiencer, and (ii) those that express the stimulus of the psychological state denoted by the psych noun and adjective. In the intransitive structure involving a dative experiencer (DatExpIS), the stimulus is in the absolutive case, and the intransitive copula izan ‘be’ shows both dative and absolutive agreement. This construction basically corresponds to those built upon the piacere type of psychological verbs typified in (Belletti, Adriana & Luigi Rizzi. 1988. Psych-verbs and θ-theory. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6. 291–352) three-way classification of Italian psych verbs. In the intransitive structure involving a dative stimulus (DatStimIS), the experiencer is marked by absolutive case, and the same intransitive copula shows both absolutive and dative agreement (with the latter corresponding to the dative stimulus and not to the experiencer). We show that the behavior of the dative argument in the two constructions is just the opposite of each other regarding a number of morphosyntactic tests, including agreement, constituency, hierarchy and selection. Additionally, we explore two parallel transitive constructions that involve either a dative experiencer and an ergative stimulus (DatExpTS) or a dative stimulus and an ergative experiencer (DatStimTS), which employ the transitive copula *edun ‘have’. Considering these configurations, we propose an extended and more fine-grained typology of psych predicates.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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