Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies

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Joao Costa
Oxford University Press, 12/10/2000 - 320 páginas
This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement,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.
 

Índice

Introduction
3
1 Infinitives versus Participles
14
A Window into the Null Subject Property
31
3 Word Order and DiscourseConfigurationality in European Portuguese
94
4 Romance Clitics and the Minimalist Program
116
5 Agreement Predication and Pronouns in the History of Portuguese
143
6 A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing
169
Chains and Constraint Interaction in Binding
191
8 Distributive Universal Quantification and Aspect in Brazilian Portuguese
241
9 Clitic Positions and Verb Movement
266
Index
299
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Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 42

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Joao Costa is Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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