Little v and cross-linguistic variation
Evidence from code switching and the Surinamese creoles
The main claim of this paper is that little v is responsible for a range of grammatical properties of the predicate phrase that it selects for. Bilingual light verb constructions in several code-switching varieties provide strong evidence for this claim. It allows us to broaden the empirical scope and deepen the theoretical insights of the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture concerning parametric variation, and provides a new insight into the clause structure of creole languages.
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