Ahal izaitea eta ezin izaitea nola adierazi izan diren euskaraz mendebaldean

Abstract

This article is a corpus compiled from four sources on how the idea of “ability” and “lack of abiility” has been expressed in the Basque language in the western area from the 16th century onwards, incorporating in addition, in the form of an epilogue, examples from Dechepare and Leiçarraga from the 16th century, and from Oihenart, from the 17th century, on everything related with certain synthetic verbal inflections and including, although they differ somewhat from others, prescriptive forms which carry albait- in the proclitic position.