Abstracts

Ane Berro In this paper, I explore some new uses of several Basque verbs, such as pisatu ‘ weigh ’, neurtu ‘ be long ’ and usaindu ‘ smell ’, in examples like maletak asko pisatzen du ‘ the suitcase is very heavy ’ (lit. the suitcase weighs a lot). Generally, these usages are not accepted or recommended in the standard, but many speakers find them totally natural. In this paper, I show that these verbs are really stative predicates, by means of several syntactic tests that are used in the lit..