Chapter Two A Short History of VSO Order
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This chapter is the first in a two-chapter discussion on the nature of the derivation of Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) order. In this chapter, I will present a short history of the various analyses of the derivation of VSO in the literature,2 for both Irish and for VSO languages in general. In chapter 3, I focus narrowly on the syntax of Irish, where I present some previous analyses of Irish within an approach that assumes the verb raises only as high as the left edge of the inflectional complex. I present there an analysis of Irish VSO order there that resolves many of the empirical problems of previous analyses.
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