Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Chapter 1. Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses (by Nunes, Jairo); 3. Part I. Movement and empty category issues; 4. Chapter 2. Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese (by Ferreira, Marcelo); 5. Chapter 3. Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (by Floripi, Simone); 6. Chapter 4. Patterns of extraction out of factive Islands in Brazilian Portuguese (by Augusto, Marina R.A.); 7. Chapter 5. A Uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese (by Kato, Mary Aizawa); 8. Chapter 6. Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese (by Nunes, Jairo); 9. Part II. Issues on the syntax-morphology interface; 10. Chapter 7. The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (by Ornelas de Avelar, Juanito); 11. Chapter 8. Topicalization of verbal projections in Brazilian Portuguese (by Bastos-Gee, Ana C.); 12. Chapter 9. Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese (by Nunes, Jairo); 13. Chapter 10. Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese (by Nunes, Jairo); 14. Author index; 15. Language index; 16. Subject index
