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Author: Mary Aizawa Kato
Publisher: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the Null Subject Parameter theory in cross linguistic variation, Brazilian Portuguese is studied in this book from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, and from the language acquisition point of view.
Author: Mary Aizawa Kato
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9783893548835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Theresa Biberauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0521886953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.
Author: W. Leo Wetzels
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1119096766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition. Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages
Author: Mary Aizawa Kato
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0190465891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanish and Portuguese were Romance languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula and were brought to America as the languages of the colonizers in the 16th century. Along the centuries, the two languages developed specific properties that distinguish them from the varieties spoken in the Old World. This book offers a rich comparative material which helps us in the understanding of linguistic change and variation.
Author: José Camacho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107034108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an accessible and original account of null subject phenomena, and encompasses the most recent findings and developments.
Author: Roberta Pires De Oliveira
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-05-08
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9027261202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in Brazilian Portuguese, left and right dislocation and the speaker’s perspective in Italian, Brazilian double subjects and left dislocated topic, long versus short wh-movement in Brazilian Portuguese and Quebec French, low adverbs and the raising of the verb in Brazilian Portuguese, ellipsis and null objects in Brazilian and European Portuguese, and bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese. The chapters propose original accounts for language variation and historical changes, most of them focusing on Brazilian Portuguese, a challenge to syntax and semantics. Thus, the volume contributes to Brazilian and Portuguese Linguistics, as well as to general and contemporary research on syntax and semantics of natural languages.
Author: Gláucia Valeria Silva
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783110171938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Author: Gréte Dalmi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-01-19
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1501513842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.
Author: Mary A. Kato
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-10-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0190629312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America from this perspective. The works presented here either compare Brazilian Portuguese with European Portuguese or compare Latin American Spanish and Peninsular Spanish, or simply compare Portuguese and its varieties with Spanish and its varieties. The chapters advance on a great variety of theoretical questions related to coordination, clitics , hyper-raising, infinitives, null objects, null subjects, hyper-raising, passives, quantifiers, pseudo-clefts, questions and distributed morphology. Finally, this book provides new empirical findings and enriches the descriptions made about Portuguese and Spanish Spoken in the Americas by providing new generalizations, new data and new statistical evidence that help better understand the nature of such variation. The studies contained in this book show a vast array of new phenomena in these young varieties, offering empirical and theoretical windows to language variation and change.
