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https://www.bilketa.eus/ark:/27020/Artxiker-00822745Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER)Etxepare, Ricardo (1968-....)IKER, artxibo-008227452013I would like to thank the organizers of the 3rd Congress of the Koldo Mitxelena Chair for inviting me to present this work. I would like to thank on a more personal basis Joseba Lakarra and Julen Manterola, whose sound objections I was not able to appropriately adress here. I also thank the members of the linguistic seminar of Iker, and the audience of the 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar at the Universitat autonoma de Barcelona for their questions and very useful comments.International audienceThis paper has as its aim to connect two seemingly disparate phenomena: the structure of Basque adpositional phrases and the synchretisms arising in plural DPs between ergative and absolutive arguments in some of the dialects of Basque. This synchretism, which can be found in western and central dialects of Basque, resolves in favour of absolutive marking, and has been taken to be the product of relatively shallow historical morphophonological processes. If the approach held here stands a reasonable chance, there may be a different way of looking at those synchretisms, by putting them in the context of diachronic processes related to the expansion of number morphology, and by capitalizing on the incompatibility of number with a particular kind of syntactic object: the so called axial part (Jackendoff, 1996), an integral part of locative constructions cross-linguistically, if recent work on the structure of those constructions is on the right track (see Kayne, 2005; Svenonius, 2006; Pantcheva, 2011, among many others).https://artxiker.ccsd.cnrs.fr/artxibo-00822745https://artxiker.ccsd.cnrs.fr/artxibo-00822745v1/file/ArtEtxepare.pdfActes de conférence | Mintzaldietako aktakActes de conférence | Mintzaldietako aktakvignette : https://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/Thumb/image?id=ark:/27020/Artxiker-00822745&mat=articleNumengArchive ouverte HAL | HAL artxibo irekiaville, Spainwestern and central dialectsBasque spatial casesergative-absolutive synchretismLinguistikaLinguistiqueBasque spatial cases and the ergative-absolutive synchretism