Erlazio-atzizkia eta hitz-ordenaren aldaketa
ISSN: 0046-435X
Year of publication: 2019
Year: 51
Issue: 127
Pages: 85-122
Type: Article
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Abstract
This paper deals with the relational marker -ko, which derives adjectival modifiers from a wide range of phrases: adverbs, local-case- or instrumental-marked nouns, postpositions and determinerless NPs. More specifically, the goal is to describe the constituent order variation from a diachronic perspective. There are two options: the modifier might be prenominal (default in the modern language) or postnominal. My proposal is that postnominal -ko modifiers appeared because some -ko phrases lexicalized as adjectives and started to be placed after the noun, in the position where canonical qualitative adjectives go in Basque.