期刊名称：Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"
印刷版ISSN：0582-6152
出版年度：2013
卷号：44
期号：2
页码：457-510
语种：Basque
出版社：Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"
摘要：This paper analizes the nature of the Basque inflectional suffix -le/-tzaile , comparing it with the derivational suffix of the same form. As we will see, the inflectional suffix can select for a wide range of constituents, such as dative phrases, post positional phrases, adverbs and even finite clauses. Thus, the complement of the inflectional suffix -le/-tzaile can be claimed to be a vP or even a higher phrase such as I(nflection)P. As happens in participal predication in Basque (Ortiz de Urbina & Uribeetxebarria 1991), predication is mediated by empty operators in inflectional -le/-tzaile structures, giving rise to similarities with relative clauses.
