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Subject Positions and Interfaces : the Case of European Portuguese.

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Costa, João
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2004.
Colección:Studies in Generative Grammar SGG.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preverbal subjects: Spec,IP or left-dislocated?
  • 3. Postverbal subjects: syntax and discourse - VSO and VOS orders
  • 4. Inversion and information structure
  • 5. Optionality and left-dislocated subjects: semantic and discourse properties
  • 6. Subjects in Spec, TP and the interface with morphology
  • 7. Syntactic outputs and the interfaces
  • 8. Summary and conclusions
  • Backmatter