Portuguese Syntax
New Comparative Studies
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2000
311 pages
978-0-19-535221-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. The articles are written within the principles and parameters framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.
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Joao Costa is Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Infinitives versus Participles
- 2. Clitics: A Window into the Null Subject Property
- 3. Word Order and Discourse-Configurationality in European Portuguese
- 4. Romance Clitics and the Minimalist Program
- 5. Agreement, Predication, and Pronouns in the History of Portuguese
- 6. A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing
- 7. First Person Plural Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese: Chains and Constraint Interaction in Binding
- 8. Distributive Universal Quantification and Aspect in Brazilian Portuguese
- 9. Clitic Positions and Verb Movement
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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