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| adam_text | Contents
Tables
xiii
Preface
xv
Abbreviations
xvii
1
Introduction
1
1.1
The Celtic background
1
1.2
The history and current position of Welsh
2
1.3
Dialect variation and the literary language
4
1.4
Some grammatical properties of Welsh
7
1.4.1
Welsh as a head-initial language
7
1.4.2
Clause structure
9
1.4.3
Agreement
17
1.4.4
Mutation
19
1.4.5
Case and pronouns
26
1.5
Research on Welsh syntax
29
1.6
The structure of this book
30
2
Simple finite clauses
32
2.1
Some basic properties
32
2.1.1
Word order and agreement
32
2.1.2
Pre-verbal particles
34
2.1.3
Other Celtic languages
37
2.2
Auxiliary-initial clauses
38
2.2.1
Aspectual clauses
39
2.2.2
GwneMir-clauses
41
2.2.3
ZWarw-clauses
42
2.2.4
Copular
clauses
43
2.2.5
Syntactic tests for auxiliaries?
44
2.3
Transformational analyses of verb-initial clauses
48
2.3.1
Preliminaries
48
2.3.2
Possible analyses
48
2.3.3
Further arguments for verb-fronting
51
2.4
Constraint-based analyses of verb-initial clauses
52
viii Contents
2.4.1
Some
analyses
52
2.4.2
More on the arguments for verb-fronting
54
2.5
Analyses of auxiliary-initial clauses
56
2.5.1
Aspectual and
copular
clauses
56
2.5.2
Gwneud-clauses and
úWarií-clauses 5<S
2.6
Further issues
60
2.6.1
Null subjects
60
2.6.2
Expletive subjects
61
2.6.3
Further non-canonical subjects
63
2.6.4
The serial construction
64
2.6.5
Verbless clauses
66
2.7
Conclusions
67
3
Non-finite verbs and infinitival clauses
68
3.1
Non-finite verbs: verbal and nominal properties
68
3.1.1
The non-finite verb form
68
3.1.2
Arguments against the verb-noun categorization
69
• 3.1.3
Verb-noun phrases as DPs
73
3.2
Tensed complement clauses
75
3.3 ßofir-clauses:
finite clauses with the infinitive bod
76
3.3.1
The distribution of bod
76
3.3.2
Evidence that bod is finite
78
3.4
Infinitival /-clauses with overt subjects
81
3.4.1
Finite ¿-clauses
82
3.4.2
Non-finite ¿-clauses
85
3.5
Control predicates
87
3.6
The syntax of
і
in infinitival complements
90
3.6.1
An apparent paradox in the distribution of
і
90
3.6.2
Evidence that functional
і
is not a preposition
91
3.6.3
Two distinct
і
elements in infinitival clauses:
complementizer
і
versus inflectional
і
94
3.6.4
Finiteness and clause structure
97
3.7
Raising predicates
99
3.7.1
A class of raising predicates
99
3.7.2
Complementizers in raising clauses
102
4
WKft-constructions
104
4.1
W/i-questions
106
4.1.1
The basic pattern
106
4.
1
.2
Antiagreement in subject wA-questions
107
4.1.3
Ungrammaticality of resumptive pronouns in subject
and object position
108
4.1.4
Verb forms in wA-constructions
109
4.1.5
Object
ifÄ-questions in
periphrastic clauses
109
Contents ix
4.1.6
Analysing subject and object wA-questions
112
A.X.I Prepositional wA-questions
114
4.1.8
Possessor wA-questions
116
4.1.9
Adjunct wA-questions
117
4.1.10
Multiple wA-questions and superiority
118
4.2
Relative clauses
118
4.2.1
Subject and object relatives
118
4.2.2
Object of non-finite verbs
120
4.2.3
Object-of-preposition relatives
120
4.2.4
Possessor relatives
121
4.2.5
Adjunct relatives
122
4.3
Focus
123
4.3.1
Propositional adverbs
124
4.3.2
Agreement in focus constructions
125
4.3.3
Fronting of verbal phrases and minor constituent types
126
A3
A Embedded focus constructions
128
4.4.
Copular
constructions
129
4.4.1
Fronting in identity
copular
constructions
129
4.4.2
Fronting in predicative
copular
constructions
130
4.4.3
Affinities with wA-constructions
131
4.5
Non-finite H A-constructions
133
4.6
Other wA-constructions: comparatives and correlatives
136
4.7
Particles in literary Welsh
136
4.8
Negative wA-constructions
139
4.9
Long-distance ^-constructions
141
4.9.1
PFA-constructions formed on embedded subject position
141
4.9.2
WA-constructions formed on embedded object positions
144
4.9.3
WA-constructions formed on other embedded positions
145
4.9.4
Resumptive embedded wA-constructions
146
4.9.5
Islands and subjacency
146
4.9.6
Successive cyclicity
148
4.10
Conclusion
151
5
Noun phrases
152
5.1
Introduction: major features of the Welsh noun phrase
152
5.2
Determiners and related elements
154
5.2.1
The definite article
155
5.2.2
Possessive clitics
157
5.2.3
Other determiners
161
5.2.4
Early postdeterminers
162
5.3
Numerals
163
5.3.1
Mutations with numerals
163
5.3.2
Agreement patterns with a numeral
165
5.3.3
The syntax of complex numerals
166
5.3.4
Noun phrases headed by numerals
168
Contents
5.3.5
Numeral
+
о
of
+
plural noun
170
5.3.6
Numeral-like quantifiers
171
5.3.7
Late postdeterminers
174
5.3.8
How much structure?
174
5.4
Adjectives and demonstratives
175
5.4.1
Mutations on adjectives
177
5.4.2
Number and gender agreement
178
5.4.3
Position of adjectives relative to the noun
179
5.4.4
Order of
postnominal
adjectives
180
5.4.5
Noun phrases headed by adjectives
182
5.4.6
The genitive of respect
183
5.5
Possessor noun phrases and related constructions
184
5.5.1
The construct-state effect
184
5.5.2
Possessor noun phrases versus attributive noun phrases
185
5.5.3
The mixed construction
186
5.6
Possible analyses of noun-phrase structure
186
5.6.1
Noun-raising approach
186
5.6.2
Non-movement approaches
188
5.6.3
Adjective mutation: phonology or morphosyntax?
188
5.6.4
Conclusions about possible analyses
194
5.7
Conclusion
194
Appendix: Mutation triggers in the noun phrase
195
6
More on agreement
198
6.1
The basic data
198
6.2
Coordination and focus sentences
205
6.2.1
Coordination
205
6.2.2
Focus sentences
206
6.3
Generalizations
208
6.4
Implications
211
6.5
A Linearization-based HPSG approach
275
6.6
Reflexives
220
6.7
Conclusions
222
7
Syntax and mutation
223
7.1
Mutation environments: some basic data
223
7.2
Phrase-based approaches to syntactic SM
226
7.3
Early case-based approaches to syntactic SM
231
7.4
Roberts case-linked approach
235
7.5
Problems with the case-linked account
238
7.5.1
Empirical issues
238
7.5.2
The question of head government
243
7.6
Recent work from a phrase-based perspective
244
7.7
Theoretical matters and structural considerations
249
Contents xi
7.7.1
Case and mutation
249
7.7.2
Structure and empty categories
251
7.8
Conclusion: common ground?
253
8
More on verbal syntax
255
8.1
The syntax of bod
255
8.1.1
Third-person forms
256
8.1.2
Omission of finite forms of bod
260
8.1.3
Analyses of bod
261
8.2
Negation
263
8.2.1
Negation in literary Welsh
263
8.2.2
Weak negative verbs and negative dependents
265
8.2.3
Negative quantifiers and pseudo-quantifiers
268
8.2.4
Strong negative verbs
270
8.2.5
The licensing of n-words
271
8.2.6
Analyses
272
8.2.7
Some other negative elements
273
8.3
Valency-changing processes
275
8.3.1
The passive
275
8.3.2
Other valency-changing processes
278
8.3.3
Impersonale
282
8.4
Conclusions
284
9
Historical syntax
286
9.1
Word order in main clauses
287
9.1.1
Verb-second structures
287
9.1.2
Expletive subjects and the emergence of the
pre-verbal
partidele
297
9.1.3
Verb-initial order
298
9.2
Periphrastic verbal forms
303
9.2.1
Periphrastic aspectual constructions
303
9.2.2
The periphrastic passive
304
9.3
Agreement patterns and null arguments
305
9.3.1
General principles of agreement
305
9.3.2
Subject-verb agreement in
Уг-ѕ^исШгеѕ
and
the mixed sentence
306
9.3.3
The decline of null arguments
307
9.4
Morphological case
308
9.5
Negation
309
9.5.1
The shift of negative-polarity indefinite pronouns to negative
quantifiers
310
9.5.2
The Welsh Jespersen s Cycle
311
9.5.3
Definite direct objects in negative sentences
312
9.6
Mutations
313
xii Contents
9.6.1
Direct-object mutation
in
Welsh
313
9.6.2
Mutation of comparative adjectives in negative
and interrogative clauses
3/5
9.7
Copular
constructions and inversion structures
316
9.7.1
Delayed subjects and objects in Middle Welsh
316
9.7.2
Copular
constructions
317
9.8
Pronouns
319
9.8.1
Loss of accusative clitics
322
9.8.2
Effects of phonological reduction of pronouns
323
9.9
Subordinate clauses
326
9.9.1
Embedded finite clauses
326
9.9.2
Embedded infinitival clauses
327
9.10
PFA-constructions
334
9.11
Noun phrases
336
9.12
Conclusion
337
10
Welsh as a VSO language
338
10.1
Traditional typology: universal ordering principles
and VSO languages
338
10.1.1
Welsh and the Greenbergian
universais
339
10.1.2
Some extensions and proposed explanations
347
10.2
Approaches to word-order typology in
generative grammar
350
10.2.1
Proposals by Ouhalla
( 1991 ):
are the Celtic languages
typologically VSO?
550
10.2.2
Further proposals for correlates of verb-initial order
358
10.3
Conclusion: the derivation of verb-initial word order
365
References
367
Index
382
The Syntax of Welsh
Welsh, like the other Celtic languages, is best-known amongst linguists
for its verb-initial word order and use of initial consonantal mutations.
However, it has many more characteristics which are of interest to
syntacticians. This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive and
accessible overview of the major syntactic phenomena of Welsh.
The authors cover a broad variety of topics, including finite and
infinitival clauses, noun phrases, agreement and tense, word order,
clause structure, dialect variation, and the historical background of the
language. Contemporary colloquial Welsh serves as the main source
of data and, where appropriate, is complemented by data from
contemporary literary forms of the language. Data from Middle and
Early Modern Welsh are also discussed. In each chapter, the authors first
present a theory-neutral description of the data and then go on to
examine theoretical analyses within Principles
&
Parameters theory and
Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The results shed new light not
only on the syntax of Welsh but also on the merits of the respective
theoretical frameworks. An engaging guide to everything that is
interesting about Welsh syntax, this book will be welcomed by
theoretical syntacticians, typologists, historical linguists and
Celticists alike.
Robert D. Borsley is Professor in the Department of Language and
Linguistics, University of Essex. His previous books include The Syntax of
the Celtic Languages {co-edited with Ian Roberts,
1996)
and Welsh Negation
and
Grammatical
Theory (co-authored with Bob Morris
jones,
2005).
Maggie Tallerman is
Professorin
the Linguistics Section at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her previous books include
Understanding Syntax (second edition
2005)
and Lmguage Origins:
Perspectives on
Evolution (2005).
David Willis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He
is the author of Syntactic Change in Welsh
(1998),
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Contents
Tables
xiii
Preface
xv
Abbreviations
xvii
1
Introduction
1
1.1
The Celtic background
1
1.2
The history and current position of Welsh
2
1.3
Dialect variation and the literary language
4
1.4
Some grammatical properties of Welsh
7
1.4.1
Welsh as a head-initial language
7
1.4.2
Clause structure
9
1.4.3
Agreement
17
1.4.4
Mutation
19
1.4.5
Case and pronouns
26
1.5
Research on Welsh syntax
29
1.6
The structure of this book
30
2
Simple finite clauses
32
2.1
Some basic properties
32
2.1.1
Word order and agreement
32
2.1.2
Pre-verbal particles
34
2.1.3
Other Celtic languages
37
2.2
Auxiliary-initial clauses
38
2.2.1
Aspectual clauses
39
2.2.2
GwneMir-clauses
41
2.2.3
ZWarw-clauses
42
2.2.4
Copular
clauses
43
2.2.5
Syntactic tests for auxiliaries?
44
2.3
Transformational analyses of verb-initial clauses
48
2.3.1
Preliminaries
48
2.3.2
Possible analyses
48
2.3.3
Further arguments for verb-fronting
51
2.4
Constraint-based analyses of verb-initial clauses
52
viii Contents
2.4.1
Some
analyses
52
2.4.2
More on the arguments for verb-fronting
54
2.5
Analyses of auxiliary-initial clauses
56
2.5.1
Aspectual and
copular
clauses
56
2.5.2
Gwneud-clauses and
úWarií-clauses 5<S
2.6
Further issues
60
2.6.1
Null subjects
60
2.6.2
Expletive subjects
61
2.6.3
Further non-canonical subjects
63
2.6.4
The 'serial construction'
64
2.6.5
Verbless clauses
66
2.7
Conclusions
67
3
Non-finite verbs and infinitival clauses
68
3.1
Non-finite verbs: verbal and nominal properties
68
3.1.1
The non-finite verb form
68
3.1.2
Arguments against the 'verb-noun' categorization
69
• 3.1.3
Verb-noun phrases as DPs
73
3.2
Tensed complement clauses
75
3.3 ßofir-clauses:
finite clauses with the infinitive bod
76
3.3.1
The distribution of bod
76
3.3.2
Evidence that bod is finite
78
3.4
Infinitival /-clauses with overt subjects
81
3.4.1
Finite ¿-clauses
82
3.4.2
Non-finite ¿-clauses
85
3.5
Control predicates
87
3.6
The syntax of
і
in infinitival complements
90
3.6.1
An apparent paradox in the distribution of
і
90
3.6.2
Evidence that functional
і
is not a preposition
91
3.6.3
Two distinct
і
elements in infinitival clauses:
complementizer
і
versus inflectional
і
94
3.6.4
Finiteness and clause structure
97
3.7
Raising predicates
99
3.7.1
A class of raising predicates
99
3.7.2
Complementizers in raising clauses
102
4
WKft-constructions
104
4.1
W/i-questions
106
4.1.1
The basic pattern
106
4.
1
.2
Antiagreement in subject wA-questions
107
4.1.3
Ungrammaticality of resumptive pronouns in subject
and object position
108
4.1.4
Verb forms in wA-constructions
109
4.1.5
Object
ifÄ-questions in
periphrastic clauses
109
Contents ix
4.1.6
Analysing subject and object wA-questions
112
A.X.I Prepositional wA-questions
114
4.1.8
Possessor wA-questions
116
4.1.9
Adjunct wA-questions
117
4.1.10
Multiple wA-questions and superiority
118
4.2
Relative clauses
118
4.2.1
Subject and object relatives
118
4.2.2
Object of non-finite verbs
120
4.2.3
Object-of-preposition relatives
120
4.2.4
Possessor relatives
121
4.2.5
Adjunct relatives
122
4.3
Focus
123
4.3.1
Propositional adverbs
124
4.3.2
Agreement in focus constructions
125
4.3.3
Fronting of verbal phrases and minor constituent types
126
A3
A Embedded focus constructions
128
4.4.
Copular
constructions
129
4.4.1
Fronting in identity
copular
constructions
129
4.4.2
Fronting in predicative
copular
constructions
130
4.4.3
Affinities with wA-constructions
131
4.5
Non-finite H'A-constructions
133
4.6
Other wA-constructions: comparatives and correlatives
136
4.7
Particles in literary Welsh
136
4.8
Negative wA-constructions
139
4.9
Long-distance ^-constructions
141
4.9.1
PFA-constructions formed on embedded subject position
141
4.9.2
WA-constructions formed on embedded object positions
144
4.9.3
WA-constructions formed on other embedded positions
145
4.9.4
Resumptive embedded wA-constructions
146
4.9.5
Islands and subjacency
146
4.9.6
Successive cyclicity
148
4.10
Conclusion
151
5
Noun phrases
152
5.1
Introduction: major features of the Welsh noun phrase
152
5.2
Determiners and related elements
154
5.2.1
The definite article
155
5.2.2
Possessive clitics
157
5.2.3
Other determiners
161
5.2.4
Early postdeterminers
162
5.3
Numerals
163
5.3.1
Mutations with numerals
163
5.3.2
Agreement patterns with a numeral
165
5.3.3
The syntax of complex numerals
166
5.3.4
Noun phrases headed by numerals
168
Contents
5.3.5
Numeral
+
о
'of'
+
plural noun
170
5.3.6
Numeral-like quantifiers
171
5.3.7
Late postdeterminers
174
5.3.8
How much structure?
174
5.4
Adjectives and demonstratives
175
5.4.1
Mutations on adjectives
177
5.4.2
Number and gender agreement
178
5.4.3
Position of adjectives relative to the noun
179
5.4.4
Order of
postnominal
adjectives
180
5.4.5
Noun phrases headed by adjectives
182
5.4.6
The 'genitive of respect'
183
5.5
Possessor noun phrases and related constructions
184
5.5.1
The'construct-state'effect
184
5.5.2
Possessor noun phrases versus attributive noun phrases
185
5.5.3
The mixed construction
186
5.6
Possible analyses of noun-phrase structure
186
5.6.1
Noun-raising approach
186
5.6.2
Non-movement approaches
188
5.6.3
Adjective mutation: phonology or morphosyntax?
188
5.6.4
Conclusions about possible analyses
194
5.7
Conclusion
194
Appendix: Mutation triggers in the noun phrase
195
6
More on agreement
198
6.1
The basic data
198
6.2
Coordination and focus sentences
205
6.2.1
Coordination
205
6.2.2
Focus sentences
206
6.3
Generalizations
208
6.4
Implications
211
6.5
A Linearization-based HPSG approach
275
6.6
Reflexives
220
6.7
Conclusions
222
7
Syntax and mutation
223
7.1
Mutation environments: some basic data
223
7.2
Phrase-based approaches to syntactic SM
226
7.3
Early case-based approaches to syntactic SM
231
7.4
Roberts' case-linked approach
235
7.5
Problems with the case-linked account
238
7.5.1
Empirical issues
238
7.5.2
The question of head government
243
7.6
Recent work from a phrase-based perspective
244
7.7
Theoretical matters and structural considerations
249
Contents xi
7.7.1
Case and mutation
249
7.7.2
Structure and empty categories
251
7.8
Conclusion: common ground?
253
8
More on verbal syntax
255
8.1
The syntax of bod
255
8.1.1
Third-person forms
256
8.1.2
Omission of finite forms of bod
260
8.1.3
Analyses of bod
261
8.2
Negation
263
8.2.1
Negation in literary Welsh
263
8.2.2
Weak negative verbs and negative dependents
265
8.2.3
Negative quantifiers and pseudo-quantifiers
268
8.2.4
Strong negative verbs
270
8.2.5
The licensing of n-words
271
8.2.6
Analyses
272
8.2.7
Some other negative elements
273
8.3
Valency-changing processes
275
8.3.1
The passive
275
8.3.2
Other valency-changing processes
278
8.3.3
Impersonale
282
8.4
Conclusions
284
9
Historical syntax
286
9.1
Word order in main clauses
287
9.1.1
Verb-second structures
287
9.1.2
Expletive subjects and the emergence of the
pre-verbal
partidele
297
9.1.3
Verb-initial order
298
9.2
Periphrastic verbal forms
303
9.2.1
Periphrastic aspectual constructions
303
9.2.2
The periphrastic passive
304
9.3
Agreement patterns and null arguments
305
9.3.1
General principles of agreement
305
9.3.2
Subject-verb agreement in
Уг-ѕ^исШгеѕ
and
the 'mixed' sentence
306
9.3.3
The decline of null arguments
307
9.4
Morphological case
308
9.5
Negation
309
9.5.1
The shift of negative-polarity indefinite pronouns to negative
quantifiers
310
9.5.2
The Welsh Jespersen's Cycle
311
9.5.3
Definite direct objects in negative sentences
312
9.6
Mutations
313
xii Contents
9.6.1
Direct-object mutation
in
Welsh
313
9.6.2
Mutation of comparative adjectives in negative
and interrogative clauses
3/5
9.7
Copular
constructions and inversion structures
316
9.7.1
Delayed subjects and objects in Middle Welsh
316
9.7.2
Copular
constructions
317
9.8
Pronouns
319
9.8.1
Loss of accusative clitics
322
9.8.2
Effects of phonological reduction of pronouns
323
9.9
Subordinate clauses
326
9.9.1
Embedded finite clauses
326
9.9.2
Embedded infinitival clauses
327
9.10
PFA-constructions
334
9.11
Noun phrases
336
9.12
Conclusion
337
10
Welsh as a VSO language
338
10.1
Traditional typology: universal ordering principles
and VSO languages
338
10.1.1
Welsh and the Greenbergian
universais
339
10.1.2
Some extensions and proposed explanations
347
10.2
Approaches to word-order typology in
generative grammar
350
10.2.1
Proposals by Ouhalla
( 1991 ):
are the Celtic languages
typologically VSO?
550
10.2.2
Further proposals for correlates of verb-initial order
358
10.3
Conclusion: the derivation of verb-initial word order
365
References
367
Index
382
The Syntax of Welsh
Welsh, like the other Celtic languages, is best-known amongst linguists
for its verb-initial word order and use of initial consonantal mutations.
However, it has many more characteristics which are of interest to
syntacticians. This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive and
accessible overview of the major syntactic phenomena of Welsh.
The authors cover a broad variety of topics, including finite and
infinitival clauses, noun phrases, agreement and tense, word order,
clause structure, dialect variation, and the historical background of the
language. Contemporary colloquial Welsh serves as the main source
of data and, where appropriate, is complemented by data from
contemporary literary forms of the language. Data from Middle and
Early Modern Welsh are also discussed. In each chapter, the authors first
present a theory-neutral description of the data and then go on to
examine theoretical analyses within Principles
&
Parameters theory and
Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The results shed new light not
only on the syntax of Welsh but also on the merits of the respective
theoretical frameworks. An engaging guide to everything that is
interesting about Welsh syntax, this book will be welcomed by
theoretical syntacticians, typologists, historical linguists and
Celticists alike.
Robert D. Borsley is Professor in the Department of Language and
Linguistics, University of Essex. His previous books include The Syntax of
the Celtic Languages {co-edited with Ian Roberts,
1996)
and Welsh Negation
and
Grammatical
Theory (co-authored with Bob Morris
jones,
2005).
Maggie Tallerman is
Professorin
the Linguistics Section at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her previous books include
Understanding Syntax (second edition
2005)
and Lmguage Origins:
Perspectives on
Evolution (2005).
David Willis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He
is the author of Syntactic Change in Welsh
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