2 Responses to “Datapoint for feature 51A and language wals_code_bsq”

1. ISHIZUKA Masayuki Says:
   December 15th, 2011 at 12:29 pm

   Although many authors describe the case markers in Basque as suffixes, they should be considered postpositional clitics in the light of the definition: ‘while they[=the adpositional clitics] attach phonologically to some word, the word they attach to need not be a noun, and which word they attach to is determined syntactically.’

   The case markers in Basque do attach to a noun, an adjective or a determiner. In fact the word they are fixed to is the final one of noun phrases. See the examples below:

   1) bost gizon=i
   five man=DAT
   ‘to five men’
   2) gizon haue=i
   man these=DAT
   ‘to these men’
   3) bost gizon gazte=ri
   five man young=DAT
   ‘to five young men’

   The dative marker =(r)i is attached to a noun, a determiner, and an adjective in each sentence.

2. Matthew Dryer Says:
   January 18th, 2012 at 1:15 am

   I don’t understand this comment. Basque is already coded as a language with postpositional clitics.

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