On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@NTL...> wrote:
>> AFAIK synthetic verbs (not just auxiliary but a few others
also)
>>have three functional slots for personal agreement marking: "nor"
>> [...]
> This doesn't seem unusual to me given the ergative morphology of the
> rest of Basque. It seems to make perfect sense. :)
My small "essay" served just to show that not the Actor is marked
directly in Basque but functional slots. Therefore there are some
verbs where there is a gender agreement with the (2sg intimate)
Actor, and there are some verbs where not. Because it depends on
the actual slot the Actor occupies.
> Its quite difficult to get good materials even for Basque...
Basque has a fairly good online grammar at
<http://www.ehu.es/grammar/>