E-Book, Englisch, Band 142, 256 Seiten
Nunes Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8953-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band 142, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
ISBN: 978-90-272-8953-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses
Jairo Nunes
Part I. Movement and empty category issues
Chapter 2. Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese
Marcelo Ferreira
Chapter 3. Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese
Simone Floripi and Jairo Nunes
Chapter 4. Patterns of extraction out of factive Islands in Brazilian Portuguese
Marina R.A. Augusto
Chapter 5. A Uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese
Mary A. Kato and Jairo Nunes
Chapter 6. Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese
Jairo Nunes and Raquel S. Santos
Part II. Issues on the syntax-morphology interface
Chapter 7. The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese
Juanito Avelar
Chapter 8. Topicalization of verbal projections in Brazilian Portuguese
Ana C. Bastos-Gee
Chapter 9. Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese
Jairo Nunes and Cristina Ximenes
Chapter 10. Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese
Jairo Nunes and Cynthia Zocca
Author index
Language index
Subject index