Word order and syntactic asymmetries in Basque modal constructions

This work focuses on a subset of modal constructions in Basque: those involving the necessity modal behar (‘need/must’/‘have to’). Behar can take either a DP or an unin- flected clause as its complement. Uninflected clauses can, in some varieties of Basque, naturally occur preceding or following the...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Etxepare, Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Gobierno de Navarra 2018-12-01
Series:Fontes Linguae Vasconum
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Online Access:http://www.culturanavarra.es/uploads/files/05-FLV126-Word%20order%20and%20syntactic.pdf