Minimalist essays on Brazilian Portuguese syntax /
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 existe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 142. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.