Basque impersonals in comparison
The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction that resembles middles, passives and impersonals. In this construction, the thematic object is the grammatical subject, which bears absolutive case and triggers absolutive agreement, and the auxiliary selected is izan ‘be’. At the same time, th...
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De Gruyter
2022-07-01
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Series: | Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0057 |