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Word order in Brazilian Portuguese /

This book is a new contribution to syntactic theory. The reader will find a clear overview of the central facts concerning Brazilian Portuguese (BP) word order, as well as a comparison to the facts in other Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, and French). In relating other Romance languages to BP,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Silva, Gláucia V. (Gláucia Valeria), 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Colección:Studies in generative grammar ; 57.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1 Word order in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 2 Overview of the Minimalist Program
  • 3 Analyses before Minimalism
  • 3.1 Declaratives
  • 3.2 Wh-questions
  • 4 Minimalist accounts
  • 5 Structure of the study
  • 2 Basic order in déclaratives
  • 1 Basic word order
  • 2 Adverb position
  • 2.1 Overt verb movement in French
  • 2.2 Adverb position in a structure without AgrP
  • 3 Sentential adverbs
  • 4 Verb position and other adverbs in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 4.1 Adverbs and compound verbs
  • 4.2 The position of já
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 3 Postverbal subjects in Brazilian Portuguese1 Introduction
  • 2 The Unaccusative Hypothesis
  • 2.1 Unaccusatives in Spanish
  • 3 Unaccusatives in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 4 Verb-subject order in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 4.1 Locative inversion
  • 4.2 VS and unaccusatives
  • 4.3 VS with other verbs
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 4 Verb movement in interrogatives
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Interrogatives in Romance: paradigms
  • 2.1 Diagnostics for wh-movement
  • 3 The Wh-Criterion
  • 4 Accounts for Spanish: no V-to-C
  • 5 Questions raised by V-to-C
  • 5.1 Verb position in interrogatives5.2 Subject position in interrogatives
  • 6 Embedded interrogatives
  • 7 Previous studies of Brazilian Portuguese interrogatives
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index