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