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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959080203321

Titolo

Portuguese syntax : new comparative studies / / edited by João Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772221-0

1-280-53027-8

0-19-535221-1

1-4294-0382-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (304 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

469.5

Soggetti

Portuguese language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Infinitives versus Participles; 2. Clitics: A Window into the Null Subject Property; 3. Word Order and Discourse-Configurationality in European Portuguese; 4. Romance Clitics and the Minimalist Program; 5. Agreement, Predication, and Pronouns in the History of Portuguese; 6. A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing; 7. First Person Plural Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese: Chains and Constraint Interaction in Binding; 8. Distributive Universal Quantification and Aspect in Brazilian Portuguese; 9. Clitic Positions and Verb Movement; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These articles focus on clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. They are written within the ""principles and parameters"" framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.