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Complement Clauses in Portuguese

Author : Ana Lúcia Santos,Anabela Gonçalves
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263964

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Complement Clauses in Portuguese by Ana Lúcia Santos,Anabela Gonçalves Pdf

This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the topic. The articles are organized in two sections, each one followed by a comment paper: the first section, more theoretical in its nature, gathers contributions analyzing major syntactic aspects of complementation in Portuguese, from a synchronic and a diachronic point of view; the second section includes articles on L1 and L2 acquisition of Portuguese complementation. Both sections especially focus on infinitival structures; mood selection and the interpretation of subjects in finite complement clauses are also topics of particular relevance. The volume is meant for researchers and students interested in formal syntax and acquisition in general and Portuguese syntax and acquisition in particular.

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

Author : Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198723783

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Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony by Adriana Cardoso Pdf

This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese-remnant-internal relativization, extraposition of restrictive relative clauses, and appositive relativization-and shows that the changes affecting these structures conspired to reduce the patterns of nominal discontinuity available in the language. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, she additionally shows that this series of changes transformed Portuguese from a 'Germanic-like' language, with a wide range of phrasal discontinuities, to a 'non-Germanic type', with more restricted patterns of discontinuity. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars working on Portuguese syntax, but also to Romance linguists and all those interested in historical and comparative syntax more widely.

The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages

Author : Emily E. Scida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135876074

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The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages by Emily E. Scida Pdf

This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from Early Romance. The syntactic analysis offered here differs from traditional descriptions of the inflected infinitive in that it uses a theoretical approach to propose one concise condition which predicts all possible occurrences of the Portuguese inflected infinitive within the framework of relational grammar. While the first section of this book offers a synchronic study of the use of the inflected infinitive, the second section examines the theories previously posited to explain its origin and provides additional evidence from Latin and other Romance languages to support the proposal that the inflected infinitive was a historical development rooted in the Latin imperfect subjunctive. This study presents a detailed comparison of the syntactic environments common to both the imperfect subjunctive and the inflected infinitive, and examines the survival of an inflected infinitive in other Romance varieties as well as the existence of other inflected non-finite forms in these languages.

Modality and Mood in Romance

Author : Martin G. Becker,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110234343

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Modality and Mood in Romance by Martin G. Becker,Eva-Maria Remberger Pdf

This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference on Romance languages and literatures] in 2007 in Vienna in the section “Mood and Modality in Romance”. The Romance languages studied here include Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and French. All contributions thematically explore the status and importance of modality and mood and their reciprocal relationships with reference to theoretical approaches.

Historical Linguistics 1999

Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298317

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Historical Linguistics 1999 by Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.

Control as Movement

Author : Cedric Boeckx,Norbert Hornstein,Jairo Nunes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139490320

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Control as Movement by Cedric Boeckx,Norbert Hornstein,Jairo Nunes Pdf

The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta position, in raising it is a non-theta position; however the grammatical procedures underlying the two constructions are the same. This book presents the main arguments for MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages, the biggest being that it reduces the kinds of grammatical operations that the grammar allows, an important advantage in a minimalist setting. It also addresses the main arguments against MTC, using examples from control shift, adjunct control, and the control structure of 'promise', showing MTC to be conceptually, theoretically, and empirically superior to other approaches.

Historical Romance Linguistics

Author : Randall Gess,Deborah Arteaga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293824

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Historical Romance Linguistics by Randall Gess,Deborah Arteaga Pdf

This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. An introduction by the eminent Romance Linguist Jürgen Klausenburger addresses the fit of these studies in the overall development of the field of historical Romance linguistics since the 19th century. The studies in this volume demonstrate an organic link between Malkiel’s (1961) ‘classic’ definition of Romance linguistics and the field of Romance linguistics today, because just as scholars of the field in the 19th century successfully applied the dominant paradigm of (historical) linguistics of their time, Neogrammarian theory, so do the authors contained in the present volume avail themselves of current linguistic advances to achieve equally significant results.

The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages

Author : Emily E. Scida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135876067

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The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages by Emily E. Scida Pdf

This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from Early Romance. The syntactic analysis offered here differs from traditional descriptions of the inflected infinitive in that it uses a theoretical approach to propose one concise condition which predicts all possible occurrences of the Portuguese inflected infinitive within the framework of relational grammar. While the first section of this book offers a synchronic study of the use of the inflected infinitive, the second section examines the theories previously posited to explain its origin and provides additional evidence from Latin and other Romance languages to support the proposal that the inflected infinitive was a historical development rooted in the Latin imperfect subjunctive. This study presents a detailed comparison of the syntactic environments common to both the imperfect subjunctive and the inflected infinitive, and examines the survival of an inflected infinitive in other Romance varieties as well as the existence of other inflected non-finite forms in these languages.

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Author : Magnus Huber,Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252548

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Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages by Magnus Huber,Viveka Velupillai Pdf

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Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads

Author : Rachel Klassen,Juana M. Liceras,Elena Valenzuela
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268600

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Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads by Rachel Klassen,Juana M. Liceras,Elena Valenzuela Pdf

This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish contributes to current formal and experimental linguistics, while on an individual level offering fine-grained analyses and innovative proposals covering a wide range of areas such as semantics and pragmatics, syntax, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialectal variation, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, as well as sociolinguistics. The volume will be a resource for graduate students, academics and researchers in theoretical, experimental and descriptive linguistics in general and Hispanic Linguistics in particular.The selection of chapters included in this volume were presented at the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted in October 2013 by the Language Acquisition Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada.

The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean

Author : Fernanda Pratas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110608687

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The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean by Fernanda Pratas Pdf

One hot topic in contemporary linguistics concerns how we express the passage of time in natural language. In particular, interesting questions have been raised as to how formerly understudied languages fit into deep-rooted theoretical frameworks, which among other features comprise a grammatical category of tense. This monograph mainly contributes to this debate in two complementary ways: through a detailed description of a large set of new data from two varieties of Caboverdean, a Portuguese-related language, and through a novel approach to the role of its few temporal morphemes, which allows to better define how tense meanings, aspect, and mood, together with other linguistic and extralinguistic information, provide what we understand as past, present, and future. The adequate study of this non-standardized language, with its impressive internal variation, thus brings new insights to old theoretical problems. Additionally, a welcome side effect of these new descriptions and analyses is that they promote a scientifically grounded attitude towards linguistic diversity.

Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Author : Anne Mucha,Jutta M. Hartmann,Beata Trawiński
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259585

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Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective by Anne Mucha,Jutta M. Hartmann,Beata Trawiński Pdf

Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years. While there is a broad consensus that a distinction between Obligatory Control (OC), Non-Obligatory Control (NOC) and No Control (NC) is useful and necessary to cover the range of relevant empirical phenomena, there is still less agreement regarding their proper analyses. In light of this ongoing discussion, the articles collected in this volume provide a cross-linguistic perspective on central questions in the study of control, with a focus on non-canonical control phenomena. This includes cases which show NOC or NC in complement clauses or OC in adjunct clauses, cases in which the controlled subject is not in an infinitival clause, or in which there is no unique controller in OC (i.e. partial control, split control, or other types of controllers). Based on empirical generalizations from a wide range of languages, this volume provides insights into cross-linguistic variation in the interplay of different components of control such as the properties of the constituent hosting the controlled subject, the syntactic and lexical properties of the matrix predicate as well as restrictions on the controller, thereby furthering our empirical and theoretical understanding of control in grammar.

Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation

Author : Ludovico Franco,Paolo Lorusso
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505102

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Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation by Ludovico Franco,Paolo Lorusso Pdf

In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects.

Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter

Author : Mary Aizawa Kato
Publisher : Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132378550

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Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter by Mary Aizawa Kato Pdf

Using the Null Subject Parameter theory in cross linguistic variation, Brazilian Portuguese is studied in this book from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, and from the language acquisition point of view.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018

Author : Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258298

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018 by Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni Pdf

This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops). The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance languages or dialects, in either synchronic or diachronic perspective, and pay particular attention to the variation and the actual variability that is at stake, not only in syntax and morpho-syntax but also in semantics and phonology. Beyond the discussion of differences between languages and/or dialects from a formalist perspective, the volume also contains a number of papers linking the theme of variation to sociolinguistic issues such as natural bilingualism and micro-contact.