Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Author: Jairo Nunes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9027255253

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This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and existential constructions, factive constructions, relative clauses, null objects and stress shift, preposition duplication, VP topicalization, and ellipsis). The book is of interest to a wide spectrum of linguists working on theoretical and comparative syntax.

Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Author: Jairo Nunes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009-04-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9027289530

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This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and existential constructions, factive constructions, relative clauses, null objects and stress shift, preposition duplication, VP topicalization, and ellipsis). The book is of interest to a wide spectrum of linguists working on theoretical and comparative syntax.

The Syntax of Portuguese
The Syntax of Portuguese

Author: Mary A. Kato

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 052186061X

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A comprehensive look at the syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese such as their pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements and word order. It is essential reading for researchers and students of Portuguese language, Romance linguistics and theoretical syntax.

Minimalist Interfaces
Minimalist Interfaces

Author: Yosuke Sato

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 9027255385

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"Empirically rich, analytically sophisticated, and theoretically necessary. A major step forward in minimalist theorizing." --

The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation
The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation

Author: Patrick Grosz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-04-11

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1614517010

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The interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (e.g. bound/referential) and their form (e.g. null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages. It unites researchers from the linguistic subfields of syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, thus furthering dialogue with the goal of shedding new light on the form/interpretation connection.

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics
The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics

Author: W. Leo Wetzels

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1119096766

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The 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

Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax
Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax

Author: Andreas Dufter

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 978

ISBN-13: 311037708X

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This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America

Author: Mary Aizawa Kato

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0190465891

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Spanish 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.

Control as Movement
Control as Movement

Author: Cedric Boeckx

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 113949032X

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The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta position, in raising it is a non-theta position; however the grammatical procedures underlying the two constructions are the same. This book presents the main arguments for MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages, the biggest being that it reduces the kinds of grammatical operations that the grammar allows, an important advantage in a minimalist setting. It also addresses the main arguments against MTC, using examples from control shift, adjunct control, and the control structure of 'promise', showing MTC to be conceptually, theoretically, and empirically superior to other approaches.

Formal Approaches to Languages of South America
Formal Approaches to Languages of South America

Author: Cilene Rodrigues

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 3031223446

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This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the region, including sign languages, indigenous languages and the romance languages (Portuguese and Spanish) originally introduced by European colonizers which underwent processes of transformation giving rise to new, local grammars. One fourth of the language families of the world are located in South America, but the majority of languages in the region are still understudied and out of the radar of theoretical linguistics mostly because their grammars are not well-known by international researchers. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together studies rooted in the formal grammar approach first developed by Noam Chomsky, which sees language not only as mere corpora attested in oral and written production, but also as expressions of systems of thought and language production which are essential parts of human cognition. The book is divided in three parts – sign languages, romance languages and indigenous languages –, and brings together studies of the following South American languages: Brazilian Sign Language (Libras - Língua Brasileira de Sinais) Argentinian Sign Language (LSA - Lengua de Señas Argentina) Peruvian Sign Language (LSP- Lengua de Señas Peruana) Brazilian Portuguese Chilean and Argentinian Spanish Quechua Paraguayan Guarani A’ingae Macro-Jê languages Formal Approaches to the Languages of South America will be an invaluable resource both for theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists by providing access to top quality research on understudied languages and enabling these languages to be incorporated into comparative studies that can contribute to advance the knowledge of general principles governing all human languages.