Basque clitics in morphosyntax*
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This paper addresses the question of φ -feature marking in Basque. Basque finite verbs display an uncommonly large number of morphemes which covary with the φ -features of the absolutive, ergative, and dative arguments as well as (in some dialects) the gender of the addressee. Recent work (Preminger 2009; Arregi & Nevins 2012) has addressed the question of how these morphemes are derived. In taking up this question, I conclude that there is a full complement of clitics (absolutive, dative, ergative, addressee), as well as an agreement probe which spells out the number of the absolutive.
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