Minimalist essays on Brazilian Portuguese syntax:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2009
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 142
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses / Jairo Nunes -- Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese / Marcelo Ferreira -- Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese / Simone Floripi and Jairo Nunes -- Patterns of extraction out of factive islands in Brazilian Portuguese / Marina R.A. Augusto -- A uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese / Mary A. Kato and Jairo Nunes -- Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese / Jairo Nunes and Raquel S. Santos -- The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese / Juanito Avelar -- Topicalization of verbal projections in Brazilian Portuguese / Ana C. Bastos-Gee -- Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese / Jairo Nunes and Cristina Ximenes -- Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese / Jairo Nunes and Cynthia Zocca
This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and existential constructions, factive constructions, relative clauses, null objects and stress shift, preposition duplication, VP topicalization, and ellipsis). The book is of interest to a wide spectrum of linguists working on theoretical and comparative syntax
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 243 pages)
ISBN:9027289530
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