Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2005

Nominal Properties of vPs in Breton, A hypothesis for the Typology of VSO Languages

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Celtic and Semitic languages show the following clustering of typological properties: (i) the Complementarity Principle in the verbal agreement system; (ii) licensing of a genitive dependent by a construct state; (iii) a verbal construction whose object bears genitive. The aim of this paper is to show how (i-iii) are derived in one of these languages taken as a case study. I will show that in the Breton language (Continental Celtic), the three properties mentioned above follow straightforwardly from one parameter: the interpretability of the [D] feature on v as represented in (1a), where v is a functional projection similar to D in a DP structure in (1b). 1) a. [vP Subject v [D- φ 3.SG ] [ VP ] ] b. [DP ..... D [ NP ]

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hal-02268497 , version 1 (21-08-2019)

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Mélanie Jouitteau. Nominal Properties of vPs in Breton, A hypothesis for the Typology of VSO Languages. Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, 2005, ⟨10.1075/la.73.18jou⟩. ⟨hal-02268497⟩
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