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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2004.
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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