The Syntax of Modern Breton
Melanie Jouitteau, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
May 2023 

In this chapter, we provide an overview of the current state of research on Modern Breton syntax, highlighting its main characteristics and formal analyses. Additionally, this paper is a replication study that seeks to address the criticism that has been directed at theoretical linguists and descriptivists that they have been working with an idealized but inauthentic version of the language. To do so, we conducted a series of elicitations with a native speaker who had high proficiency in Standard Breton and was also able to make contrastive judgments relative to her native dialect. The topics covered in this article include the canonical word order of the Breton sentence, the case system, the main pronominal paradigms, and the agreement system. The article concludes with a summary of areas within Breton syntax that require further research and investigation.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/007307 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Joe Eska, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Silva Nurmio & Paul Russell (éds.), The Handbook of Celtic languages, Palgrave
keywords:	breton, celtic, standard breton, verb-second, negation, agreement, syntax, syntax
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