Accounting for do-support Post-Syntactically: Evidence from Old Irish

Glenda Newton, University of Cambridge

Abstract

Since Chomsky (1957) much has been written on the topic of do-support and its connection to affix hopping in English. However, as yet no definitive analysis has been proposed. This paper considers a parallel to English do-support, namely the use of the dummy particle no in Old Irish (OIr). A post-syntactic account of this phenomenon in OIr is developed within the framework of Distributed Morphology/DM (Halle and Marantz, 1993) and the possibility of applying such an account to English do-support is considered.

Recommended Citation

Newton, Glenda (2009) "Accounting for do-support Post-Syntactically: Evidence from Old Irish," University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 15: Iss. 1, Article 19.
Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/19