Etude descriptive de constructions complexes en basque : propositions relatives, temporelles, conditionnelles et concessives
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Abstract EN:
The dissertation offers a detailed description of four types of subordonated clauses in basque: relative clauses, temporal clauses, conditional constructions and concessive constructions. The first chapter, which deals with relative clauses, treats firstly of the usual relative constructions, where the suffix -(e)n is employed, and secondly of the marked relative clauses in which the prefix bait- can be used. As for the first ones, the main features of basque relativization are examined, i. E. Characterization of the relative suffix -(e)n relating to the case system, constraints on the branching of the relative clause, and on the order of its constituents, questions on accessibility resulting from the fact that the pivotal np is not phonologized in any form within the relative clause, and so on. Other related points are studied too, such as free relativization, truncated and subjective relative clauses, stacking, restrictive and nonrestrictive interpretations of relative clauses, and such like. Thereafter the differents forms of relative clauses in which the prefix bait- is available are studied. The second chapter treats of the temporal localisation by adverbial clauses. It is mainly focused on the different values (types of structuration of the temporal line) that can be constructed by the combination of locative case markers added to free relatives and aspectual formatives. Nontensed temporal clauses are also described. In the third chapter, conditional constructions are discussed. Since the basque language has a specific verbal paradigm for hypothetical utterances, it distinguishes hypothetical and nonhypothetical constructions. Both of these are examined. The last chapter deals with concessive clauses. The analysis of these is based on two different operation types which apply to the relational square which can be constructed taking the inferentional links between two utterances as its starting point.
Abstract FR:
La these, au travers de quatre chapitres successifs, fournit une description detaillee, tenant compte de la diversite dialectale, de quatre types de phrases subordonnees en basque: les relatives, les temporelles, les conditionnelles et les concessives. Le premier chapitre est consacre aux relatives, d'abord sous leur forme la plus habituelle, avec usage du marqueur- (e)n, et ensuite sous des formes plus marquees, ou le prefixe bait- peut apparaitre. En ce qui concerne les relatives ordinaires les elements majeurs du mecanisme de relativation sont etudies: outre l'identification du relateur -(e)n et les contraintes de positionnement soit de branchement, soit des elements internes a la relative, sont abordes les problemes resultant du fait que le basque ne realise pas phonologiquement le sn pivot dans la relative. Diverses questions annexes sont egalement abordees: relatives tronquees, libres, subjectives; empilage et emboitement; distinction relatives restrictives non restrictives; etc. Pour les relatives en bait-, une analyse est proposee pour chacune des possibilites rencontrees a partir du positionnement. Dans le second chapitre, consacre a la localisation temporelle, il est tout d'abord indique que, du point de vue formel, les propositions temporelles conjuguees se rattachent pour la plupart a la relativation. Mais l'essentiel de l'etude est consacre a la presentation des divers types de valeurs resultant de l'adjonction d'un suffixe casuel a une relative libre. Les temporelles non conjuguees sont egalement presentees. Le troisieme chapitre, relatif aux propositions conditionnelles, souligne l'existence, marquee dans la morphologie verbale de la distinction entre conditionnels hypothetiques et non hypothetiques, lesquels donc sont tour a tour etudies a partir des differents marqueurs aspectuels et modo-temporels. Le quatrieme et dernier chapitre, consacre aux propositions concessives, distingue deux types de constructions associees au carre de relations pouvant etre construit a partir de deux enonces p et q et de leurs comple- mentaires respectifs.