Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque: Animacy and spatial cases

Creissels, Denis; Mounole, Céline

doi:10.1075/tsl.99.06cre

In:Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski
[Typological Studies in Language 99] 2011
► pp. 157–182

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Animacy and spatial cases

Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque

Denis Creissels | Université Lumière (Lyon 2)

Céline Mounole | University of the Basque Country & Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux 3)

Published online: 28 September 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.99.06cre

In the expression of spatial relationships, it is cross-linguistically common that human or animate nouns have particularities that distinguish them from other nouns. After presenting cross-linguistic data illustrating some tendencies observed in the behavior of human or animate nouns in spatial orienter function, this paper examines the contribution of Basque data to this question.

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