Опубликовано в: JCeltL, № 9 (2005). — pp. 13–31. Contra the prevailing Chomskyan view of Modern Irish VSO, where the order is derived via verb movement, this paper proposes that Lexical-Functional Grammar provides a more explanatory account using a flat, VP-less structure. Using evidence from complex copular predicates, we show that the variability in category of the initial...
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