Infinitival Clauses in Breton
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20469765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maggie Tallerman (0000-0001-6256-4758, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 205-233 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000841310001687x |
| OpenAlex | W2504279031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
In Breton, lexical subjects occur both in finite clauses and infinitival clauses. Within the Principles and Parameters model, the question arises as to how infinitival subjects can be Case-licensed, since the finite Tense element associated with Case-licensing in finite clauses is absent from infinitival clauses. Infinitival subjects are, however, preceded by some prepositional element, and previous accounts have proposed that these are Case-markers, assigning abstract Case to the subjects. However, prepositional elements also occur in controlled infinitival clauses—which have the null subject PRO—yet lexical subjects and PRO are not interchangeable. In this article, it is proposed that the crucial property associated with the Case-licensing of lexical subjects in all Breton clause types is subject agreement. This occurs not only on finite verbs, but also on the prepositional elements in infinitival clauses, which are sometimes complementizers and sometimes Agr S P heads. Clauses containing PRO, however, lack subject agreement, and hence cannot license lexical subjects
Agreement · Dependent clause · Element (criminal law) · Epistemology · License · Linguistics · Political science · Property (philosophy) · Sentence · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Knowledge of language
Bod in the present tense and in other tenses
The Theory of Principles and Parameters
The View from building 20
Syntax
The Syntax of the Celtic Languages
The Celtic Languages
Lectures on Government and Binding
Anaphora in Celtic and Universal Grammar
The uniform Case-licensing of subjects in Welsh
Further remarks on Breton agreement
On the scope of verb movement in Irish
Negation and verb second in Breton
Agreement vs. Incorporation in Breton
Icelandic case-marked PRO and the licensing of lexical arguments
Inflection and conjunction in Modern Irish
Prepositional complementizers in Welsh
The position of subjects
The morphosyntax of aspect
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| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |