La manière actuelle d´ indiquer les personnes-sujets au présent intransitif est-elle primitive en basque?

Léon, Albert

Publication year:

1913

Publication place:

París

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Summary

One of the particularities of the Basque conjugation is that the order of the elements (subject-person, verb root, tense and mode, direct and indirect complement) not only defers of the present to the past, but also makes present different in transitive from intransitive verbs. The possible origin of this linguistic particularity is studied in this article