Minimalist Essays On Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Author : Jairo Nunes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289537

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Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax by Jairo Nunes Pdf

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.

Author : Jairo Nunes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255259

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Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax by Jairo Nunes Pdf

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.

Author : Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521860611

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The Syntax of Portuguese by Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes Pdf

A comprehensive look at the syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese such as their pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements and word order. It is essential reading for researchers and students of Portuguese language, Romance linguistics and theoretical syntax.

Author : Peter Kosta,Steven L. Franks,Teodora Radeva-Bork,Lilia Schürcks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270061

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Minimalism and Beyond by Peter Kosta,Steven L. Franks,Teodora Radeva-Bork,Lilia Schürcks Pdf

The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its empirical and theoretical limits, and brings together some of the most innovative and radical ideas to have emerged in the attempt to reduce Universal Grammar to the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually necessary interfaces. The contributors include both leading theoreticians and well-known practitioners of minimalism; the papers thus both respond to broad questions about the nature of human language and the architecture of grammar, and provide careful analyses of specific linguistic problems. Overarching issues of syntactic computation are considered, such as the role of formal features, the mechanics of movement and the property of displacement, the construction of words and phrases, the nature of Spell-Out, and, more generally, the forces driving operations. The volume has the potential to reach a wide audience, favoring inter-theoretical debate with a concise state-of-the-art panorama on Minimalism and advances about its future developments.

Author : Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009321693

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The Syntax of Portuguese by Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes Pdf

Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language in the world, and due to recent interest in comparative syntax, the literature on its syntax has increased exponentially, resulting in exciting discoveries of a range of aspects that have hitherto been overlooked. This book provides a theoretically grounded overview of the major syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on the differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese. It shows from a theoretical point of view how different syntactic properties are interconnected by comparing and contrasting the variances between pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements, and word order. It also highlights how small differences in the specification of syntactic properties may yield quite different dialects. It introduces key theoretical points without technical jargon, making the content accessible to specialist and non-specialists alike. It is essential reading for both academic researchers and students of Portuguese language, comparative syntax, Romance linguistics, and theoretical syntax.

Author : Mary A. Kato,Francisco Ordóñez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190465902

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The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America by Mary A. Kato,Francisco Ordóñez Pdf

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.

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.

Author : Andrew Carnie,Dan Siddiqi,Yosuke Sato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317751045

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The Routledge Handbook of Syntax by Andrew Carnie,Dan Siddiqi,Yosuke Sato Pdf

The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches. The handbook covers key issues within the field that include: • core areas of syntactic empirical investigation, • contemporary approaches to syntactic theory, • interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system, • experimental and computational approaches to syntax. Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, the Routledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.

Author : Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Hans Broekhuis,Ralf Vogel
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9783940793614

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Optimality Theory and Minimalism by Hans Broekhuis,Ralf Vogel Pdf

Author : W. Leo Wetzels,Sergio Menuzzi,João Costa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119096764

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The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics by W. Leo Wetzels,Sergio Menuzzi,João Costa Pdf

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition. Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages

Author : Jun Abe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614516996

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A Movement Theory of Anaphora by Jun Abe Pdf

Under the tenet shared by Hornstein and Kayne that rules of construal need to be recaptured by the operation Move, this book aims to construct a movement theory of anaphora according to which anaphoric relations are established through movement of pro. This theory has significant theoretical implications for reconstruction effects and pro-drop phenomena. It has brought binding theory into the realm of the Minimalist Program.

Author : Esther Rinke,Tanja Kupisch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219312

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The Development of Grammar by Esther Rinke,Tanja Kupisch Pdf

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition as well as the relation between language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change. The recurrent topic of the volume is the link between linguistic variation and the limitation of structural variability in the framework of a well-defined theory of language. In this respect, the volume opens up new perspectives for future research.

Author : Marie-Hélène Côté,Eric Mathieu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269164

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Variation within and across Romance Languages by Marie-Hélène Côté,Eric Mathieu Pdf

This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time, linguistic contexts, and communicative situations. Furthermore, the articles address common theoretical and empirical issues from different formal, experimental, or corpus-based perspectives. The languages analyzed belong to the main members of the Romance family, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Ladin, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian, and a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields, from phonetics to semantics, as well as historical linguistics, bilingualism and second-language learning, is covered. By illustrating the richness and complementarity of subjects, methods, and theoretical frameworks explored within Romance linguistics, significant contributieons are made to both the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory.

Author : Ludovico Franco,Mihaela Marchis Moreno,Matthew Reeve
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102006

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Agreement, case and locality in the nominal and verbal domains by Ludovico Franco,Mihaela Marchis Moreno,Matthew Reeve Pdf

This book explores the Agree operation and its morphological realisations (agreement and case), specifically focusing on the connection between Agree and other syntactic dependencies such as movement, binding and control. The chapters in this volume examine a diverse set of cross-linguistic phenomena involving agreement and case from a variety of theoretical perspectives, with a view to elucidating the nature of the abstract operations that underlie them. The phenomena discussed include backward control, passivisation, progressive aspectual constructions, extraction from nominals, possessives, relative clauses and the phasal status of PPs.