By Itziar San Martin, Juan Uriagereka
In this paper we analyze the core instances of infinitival complementation in Basque. Some familiar facts are discussed, and also a surprising one which has never been analyzed: the peculiar Case/agreement distributions apparent in instances of obligatory control. If valid, our analysis has potentially important consequences for the theory at large.
The paper has seven parts. We present the interesting fact in section 2. Section 3 discusses a handful of auxiliary assumptions, familiar to Basque linguists but relatively unknown elsewhere in the field. Sections 4 and 5 constitute the skeleton of our account, with the punch-line presented. in section 6. Conclusions are reached in section 7. An Appendix presents apparent exceptions that, in their own right, serve to strengthen the overall picture.