JOUITTEAU, Mélanie

doi:10.1075/la.73.18jou

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JOUITTEAU, Mélanie
Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques [IKER]

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Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages. 2005

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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 ]< Réduire

Mots clés

syntaxe comparative

linguistique bretonne

linguistique celtique

accord en système de traits

minimalité relativisée

Mots clés en anglais

comparative syntax

breton language

breton linguistics

complementarity principle

Celtic linguistics

Agreement of Features