Izen sintagmaren egitura determinazioaren arabera

Abstract

The main aim of this piece of research is to open new working possibilities for traditional noun-phrase analysis, since certain expressions from the spoken (and also written) language are not duly covered by the usual descriptions and rules laid out for the noun phrase in the Basque language. The suggestion is principally based on the observation of two variables: first of all, the behaviour of the determiners in the noun phrase is detected; and second, the order of the parts making up this noun phrase is checked. Basing ourselves on these two variables, the following classification is proposed: 1) traditional sintagmas, 2) split sintagmas, and 3) sintagmas with altered part order. Special attention is paid in the present article to the last two types. In the case of split sintagmas, the part which shifts from its position of origin moves the determiner of the entire sintagma in so doing. More than one determiner exists, therefore, in this type of sintagma (something which classical analysis has been unable to explain satisfactorily). In the other kind of sintagma, however, there is a shift in the parts which go to make up the sintagma, but only one determiner appears and not two as in the type just described, leading us to postulate the existence of another type of sintagmas which are different from the previous one.