Portuguese Syntax - New Comparative Studies

Informationen zum Autor Joao Costa is Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Klappentext This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement,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. Zusammenfassung These articles focus on clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. They are written within the "principles and parameters" framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Manuela Ambar: Infinitives vs. Participles 2: Pilar Barbosa: Clitics: A Window into the Null Subject Property 3: Joao Costa: Word Order and Discourse Configurationality in European Portuguese 4: Ines Duarte and Gabriela Matos: Romance Clitics and the Minimalist Program 5: Charlotte Galves: Agreement, Predication, and Pronouns in the History of Portuguese 6: Ana Maria Martins: A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing 7: SXergio Menuzzi: 1st Person Plural Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese: Chains and Constraint Interaction in Binding 8: Gertjan Postma: Distributive Universal Quantification and Aspect in Brazilian Portuguese 9 Clitic Positions and Verb Movement: Eduardo Raposo Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Joao Costa, João Costa, Joao (Lecturer in Linguistics Costa
• Assisted by: Jo?o Costa (Editor), Joao Costa (Editor), João Costa (Editor), Juan G. Costa (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2000
• EAN: 9780195125764
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512576-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Portuguese, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology