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Informationen zum Autor Mary A. Kato is Professor Emreritus of Linguistics at State University of Campinas.Francisco Ordóñez is Associate Professor in the Linguistic Department at Stony Brook University. Klappentext Recent 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. Zusammenfassung Recent 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD Mary A. Kato and Francisco Ordóñez 1. Microparametric variation in varieties of Spanish and Portuguese null subjects Eugênia Duarte and Humberto Soares da Silva 2. The Null Subject Parameter revisited. The evolution from null subject Spanish and Portuguese to Dominican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese José Camacho 3.On the notion of partial (non-) pro-drop in Romance Andrés Saab 4.Informational quantifier floating: a contrastive analysis between Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish Renato Lacerda 5.Subject and Topic Hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese: A case study on reference sets for economy computations Jairo Nunes 6. V-and-V constructions in Portuguese: The case of ir-and-V Madalena Colaço and Anabela Gonçalves 7. Inflected infinitives and restructuring in Brazilian Portuguese Marcelo Modesto 8. The Null object in Romania Nova Sonia Cyrino 9.The external possessor construction in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese Maria Aparecida Torres Morais and Heloisa Maria Lima-Salles 10.Agreement and D.O.M. with se: A comparative study of Mexican and Peninsular Spanish Francisco Ordóñez and Esthela Treviño 11.Some syntactic and pragmatic aspects of WH-in-situ in Brazilian Portuguese Maria Cristina Figueiredo S...
