Baina, esaldi neutro batean, interpretazio rhematikoa flexiblea da: ez da hor soilik kabitzen "erranaldi osoa", baizik ze izan ahal dá predikatua ere, edo soilik objetua (objetu mailako objetu neutroa)

Atzokoan behin gogóratuta nóla Céline Mounole-k esaten zigun ze...

Oinarrizko ordena horretan, erranaldi osoa da mezua, ez da osagai bat beste bat baino gehiago nabarmentzen; horregatik erraten da ordena neutroa dela... [Mounole, 2024:129]

 amaitzen genuén gure sarrera esánez ze...

Beraz, SOV neutro bakar horretan ez da kabitzen interpretatzea predikatu mailako foku neutrala (soilik predikatua da rhematikoa) edo objetu mailako foku neutroa (soilik objetua da rhematikoa). Berriro ere, eta hitz bitan: erabateko ezbidea. 

Baina, esaldi neutro bateko mezua (zati rhematikoa, informazio berria) ez da derrigor izan behar erranaldi osoa; izan ere, esaldi neutro bat ez da derrigor interpretatu behar nola erranaldi osoko foku neutroa, baizik ze baita be interpretatu ahal da predikatu mailako foku neutroa (soilik predikatua da rhematikoa) eta objetu mailako foku neutroa (soilik objetua da rhematikoa). 

Esan nahi baita ze esaldi neutroak dirá informatiboki askoz flexibleagoak zeinda goragoko interpretazio zurrun hori ganik Euskaltzaindiko Gramatika-Batzordekide Mounole. Puntu horretaz, gogoratu daigun ondoko sarrera hau: 

• [1519] Eta gero daukagú foku zabala edo neutroa (kin azentu neutroa)  

Atzokoan genioén ze ...

... galdegaia edo foku enfatikoa (azentu enfatikoa, bereziki markatua, ez azentu neutroa) dá ber gauza zein foku estua.  

Gaurkoan gogoratu nahi dugu ze, horrez gainera, daukagú foku zabala edo neutroa, zein den ematen kin azentu neutroa, eta zeintan interpretatu ahal den ze:

I. Esaldi osoa da foku neutroa.

II. Predikatua da foku neutroa.

III. Objetua da foku neutroa.

Puntu horretaz, gogora daigun ondoko sarrera:

Ikus daigun ondorengo textua ganik Arantzazu Elordieta gain definizioa on ordena neutroa edo ez-markatua (an bere doktore-tesia titulatzén "Verb movement and constituent premutation in Basque", 2001:130-131): 

..., Cinque proposes a universal sentence stress rule which will apply in every language provided that we know what the direction of recursion is in a language, and by using the concept of "most embeddedness". Cinque's algorithm may be informally formulated as follows:

The main stress of a sentence falls on the most embedded element on the recursive side of the tree.

... This, in a head-initial language (VO), the complement will count as most embedded in a SVO order, since the complement is selected by the verb. Likewise, in a V-final language, the most embedded element in SOV order will also be the complement, as the language is left-branching. As a result, in both types of languages the complement receives the main sentence stress, as is conformed by the followwing data from Spanish (VO) and Basque (OV) (the words in bold face indicate the constituent bearing neutral stress):

(29a) Hoy los niños han cantado dos canciones nuevas.

(29b) Gaur umeek abesti berri bi abestu dituzte.

The main sentence stress borne on the direct object in both sentences in (29) is tipically found in sentences occurring in the neutral order. As is well kwoun, neutral order is pronounced whith a neutral focus intonation (which we may now identify as main stress),...

(29b) represents the unmarked or neutral word order for the constituents of a simple transitive clause in Basque, SOV.

[Oinoharra ganik Arantzazu Elordieta: Keep in mind that I use the term "unmarked" in the sense of neutral order in relation to the information structure of the sentence; in other words, when no constituent is understood to be more prominent or informative than the other constituents in the sentence.]

(29b) has an interpretation according to which the entire sentence can be viewed as the focus phrase. But, in addition (29b) can also have two further interpretations, according to which only the VP abesti berri bi abestu 'sing two songs' represents the new information of the sentence, and a third reading, in which only the object phrase abesti berri bi 'two new songs' is interpreted as the information focus of the sentence. The three readings are given below (the intended focused constituent in each reading is marked in italics):

(30) Gaur umeek abesti berri bi abestu dituzte.

I. "Today the children sang two new songs" 

II. "Today the children sang two new songs" 

III. "Today the children sang two new songs"  

In fact, the paradigm illustrated in (30) is the typical pattern observed in 'wide focus' utterances in many languages, as discussed in Cinque (1993) and Zubizarreta (1998), namely, that under the same neutral focus intonation, all of the constituents in a sentence can be interpreted as focus. [Arantzazu Elordieta, 2001:130-131]

Azpimarratu ze hor mintzo da gain azentu neutroa, ez-markatua, zein, ordena neutroan, interpreta liteken nola:

I. Esaldi osoko foku neutroa.

II. Predikatu mailako foku neutroa.

III. Objetu mailako foku neutroa.

eta baita orobat ze:

I use the term "unmarked" in the sense of neutral order in relation to the information structure of the sentence; in other words, when no constituent is understood to be more prominent or informative than the other constituents in the sentence. [Arantzazu Elordieta, 2001:130-131]

hala nola, azkenik, ze Cinque-k aldarrikatzen dú bere azentu-araua nola universala.

Hortxe dugu foku zabala, neutroa, zein baitare interpretatu ahal da nola objetu mailakoa, nahiz ez izan bereziki markatua.

nondik atera dugún Arantzazu Elordieta-ren pasarte hau:

(29b) has an interpretation according to which the entire sentence can be viewed as the focus phrase. But, in addition (29b) can also have two further interpretations, according to which only the VP abesti berri bi abestu 'sing two songs' represents the new information of the sentence, and a third reading, in which only the object phrase abesti berri bi 'two new songs' is interpreted as the information focus of the sentence. [Arantzazu Elordieta, 2001:130-131]

Hau da, esaldi neutro batean, interpretazio rhematikoa flexiblea da: ez da hor soilik kabitzen the entire sentence (erranaldi osoa), baizik ze izan ahal dá the VP ere (predikatua), edo soilik the object phrase (objetua). Eta hasierako interpretazioa, zér da? Berriro diogu: erabateko ezbidea. [3158] [>>>]