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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nunes, Jairo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 142.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.