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：423-433
语种：English
出版社：Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"
摘要：This paper develops and extends a unified account of two different guises of participial affixes in Basque suggested in Haddican (2007). The affixes -tu/-i/-n/ -Ø are traditionally described as “participial” affixes or perfective markers in view of the fact that on main verb complements of finite auxiliaries, they obligatorily cooccur with a perfective interpretation. Nevertheless, in non-finite embeddings, these affixes do not force perfective interpretation, and instead behave as infinitival markers. It is proposed that the affixes -tu/-i/-n/ -Ø are merged as infinitival heads, and that the perfective guise of these elements involves raising of the verb root+ -tu/-i/-n/ -Ø to a null perfective head. Indirect evidence in favour of this proposal comes from the behaviour of these affixes in central dialects.
