Person matters in impersonality
dc.contributor.author | Berro Urrizelki, Ane | |
dc.contributor.author | Odria Tudanca, Ane | |
dc.contributor.author | Fernández Fernández, Beatriz | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-05T18:25:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-05T18:25:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-05-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Syntax 25(2) : 147-187 (2022) | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-0005 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/64665 | |
dc.description | Artikulu zientifikoa | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term defective. For case and agreement, being defective means having no uninterpretable ϕ features and no Case to assign. However, a silent person pronoun is introduced in its specifier position, and thus, there are two arguments within VoiceP. The two arguments compete to value the ϕ features of the next functional head, namely T. With this analysis we account for the main properties of the impersonal, such as the syntactic activeness of the implicit external argument and the person constraint on the internal argument. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | The authors are grateful to the reviewers and the editor for their careful reading and valuable comments. They also acknowledge financial support from research project PGC2018-096380-B-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, from research project ANR-17-CE27-0011-01 of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and from research project IT1169 of the Basque government. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Wiley | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIU/PGC2018-096380-B-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | impersonals | es_ES |
dc.subject | Basque | es_ES |
dc.subject | person | es_ES |
dc.subject | person case constraint | es_ES |
dc.subject | voice | es_ES |
dc.title | Person matters in impersonality | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2022 The Authors.Syntaxpublished by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permitsuse and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications oradaptations are made. | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/synt.12230 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/synt.12230 | |
dc.departamentoes | Lingüística y estudios vascos | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Hizkuntzalaritza eta euskal ikasketak | es_ES |
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