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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2001.
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Colección: | Studies in generative grammar ;
57. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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