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Overview & Synopsis

This paper shows us a summary of Bas-Vannetais word order (Pourlet Breton, more precisely) regarding an original approach for Breton syntaxial study. This approach, proposed by Oliver Currie (2000) in his analyse on word order shift in pre-modern Welsh, makes more considerable, ‘external’ contexts (socio-literature, literary genres etc) and ‘internal’ causes (preference of some word order for certain verbs, intransitive verbs or transitive verbs etc). In the comparison of result with the proportion of word order from other studies (LE PIPEC 2017), we easily find that proportion of word order is quite like what we found in Malguénac (Ibidem). We can also validate the theory (Ibidem) on Breton word order: the more we go to Southeast Lower-Brittany, the more we find S V structure. Another comparison with two corpora from ‘academic-form like’ Breton affirms that a temporal evolution of Breton word order (or in Vannetais dialect, at least): we do not find that much a difference between speakers born in 1900s to 1940s. The thing is, we could find a radical shift when it comes to authors who are highly educated, which brings proportion of their word order, like KLT’s one. Wherefore resemble their phrases to KLT, instead of Classical Vannetais?