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The internal structure of personal pronouns /

This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, with a special emphasis on the first-person singular, which exhibits severe syncretism in this language. This study is an investigation into the formative features of pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese and their re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carvalho, Danniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; Chapter Two; 2.1 The Basics of Pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese; 2.2 Personal Pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese; 2.3 Syntactic Constraints on First-Person Pronoun Alternations; 2.4 The Pronominal Subject of Embedded Infinitives; 2.5 Summary; Chapter Three; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Features and the Lexicon; 3.1.2 Functional Categories; 3.1.3 Syntactic Operations; 3.1.4 Agreement and Case; 3.2 Features and Pronoun Composition; 3.2.1 What Determines the Distribution of a Pronoun; 3.2.2 Enriched Pronouns
  • 3.3 On the Compositionality of Pronouns3.3.1 Cardinaletti and Starke (1999); 3.3.2 Déchaine and Wiltschko (2002); 3.3.3 Rullmann (2004); 3.3.4 Harley and Ritter (2002); 3.3.5 Béjar (2003); 3.4. Enriched Feature Notation; 3.4.1 Feature Composition: Person; 3.4.2. Feature Composition: Number; 3.4.3 Feature Composition: Gender; 3.5 Summary; Chapter Four; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Enriched -Set and Agreement Conditions; 4.2.1 Agreement Conditions via Feature Underspecification; 4.2.2 Conditions on Match; 4.2.3 Conditions on Value; 4.3 Summary; Chapter Five; 5.1. Overview; 5.2 Decomposing Case
  • 5.2.1 Case Systems, Syntax, and Morphology5.2.2 Case in Brazilian Portuguese; 5.3 Case Underspecification; 5.3.1 McFadden (2007); 5.4 A Case Underspecification Theory; 5.4.1 Deficiency and Underspecification; 5.4.2 Case Geometry; 5.4.3 Value Condition for Case Features; 5.4.4 From Determining Valuing to Realisation; 5.4.4.1 Case and DP Domain; 5.5 On Case in Embedded Infinitives in BP; 5.6 Summary; Chapter Six; References