possessive resultative

[aldai]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Bjoern Wiemer wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I would like to know if you have come across examples in some language or
> other in which there is a resultative construction of the following
> Lithuanian kind:
>
> (1) (as') turiu          pasiruos'e's                      savo lagamina'.
>      I    HAVE-1.Sg.prs  PREPARE-part:prt:act.nom.sg.masc. REFL suitcase-acc.sg
>      'I have prepared (for myself) my suitcase'


I don't know of any exact parallel of the construction you are presenting.
And this is probably so because the languages i am familiar with don't
have active past-participles like Lithuanian but only "passive"
past-participes. I can give you, though, partial parallels, from
Spanish and Basque. But bear in mind that the participle in all the cases
i know is "passive", and therefore ergatively (or perhaps
split-intransitively) unmarked, if one wants. That is, with trnsitive
objects and intransitive subjects treated alike, for instance, in the
agreement on the participle.

Basque, along with the ergative perfect and ergative resultatives, does
have a nominative resultative, which may show in some variaties subject
agreemnt on the past participle. It is, though, very restricted both
lexically (and, perhaps, dialectally). And, most importantly, it
always shows the auxiliary "to be" (which makes sense from the point of
view of grammaticaliztion, bearing in mind that the passive participle is
in this case referring to the state of both intransitive and
transitive subjects, therefore the auxiliary is always "to be"). This
(kind of odd) construction has been called "the Basque antipassive" by
Rebuschi.

Gontzal Aldai