Carnie, AndrewBobaljik, Jonathan2016-06-172016-06-171996-01Carnie, A., & Bobaljik, J. (1996). Shifting objects and procrastinating subjects*. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 18(Winter), 23-30.2371-2643http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51389Andrew Carnie, University of Calgary; Jonathan Bobaljik, Harvard UniversityWe claim that the Minimalist framework of Chomsky (1993) predicts VSO to be the unmarked word order in a language which has both verb raising and Object Shift (in the sense of Holmberg (1986)). This paper has two sections: In section l, we will show that object shift entails a subject positions lower than the specifier of AgrS. Thus, in a language with verb raising to AgrS, VSO order would be derived trivially. In section 2, we will show how this works in Irish, a language with both overt object shift and VSO matrix ordering.enLinguisticsSyntaxIrish languagejournal article10.11575/PRISM/28923