期刊名称：Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"
印刷版ISSN：0582-6152
出版年度：2011
卷号：43
期号：1-2
页码：97-118
语种：Basque
出版社：Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"
摘要：After characterizing the so called possesive genitive as a case mark on nominal DP arguments, this article proposes that Basque structural genitive case is checked in the specifier of the head possessive , right below DP. This position attracts both subject and object genitives thus creating a multiple specifier configuration. As a result, Basque multiple genitive constructions display the features described by Richards (2001) for multiple A-specifiers (superiority, lack of scope ambiguity) and provide the basis to analyze several word order restrictions observed in Eguzkitza (1993); moreover, the derived order SO(X)N shows Person Case Constraint effects. The main consequences are that: (a) DP raising is pervasive in Basque noun phrases; and (b) we confirm that UG allows multiple case (here genitive) checking but disallows multiple person checking (Boeckx 2003, Jeong 2004, Ormazabal & Romero 2007, Rezac 2008).
