Minimalist essays on Brazilian Portuguese syntax

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9789027289537 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027289530 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027255259 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (vi, 243 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses / Jairo Nunes -- Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese / Marcelo Ferreira -- Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese / Simone Floripi and Jairo Nunes -- Patterns of extraction out of factive islands in Brazilian Portuguese / Marina R.A. Augusto -- A uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese / Mary A. Kato and Jairo Nunes -- Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese / Jairo Nunes and Raquel S. Santos -- The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese / Juanito Avelar -- Topicalization of verbal projections in Brazilian Portuguese / Ana C. Bastos-Gee -- Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese / Jairo Nunes and Cristina Ximenes -- Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese / Jairo Nunes and Cynthia Zocca.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.