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Portuguese syntax : new comparative studies / edited by João Costa.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portuguese language--Syntax.
- Portuguese language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772221-0
- 1-280-53027-8
- 0-19-535221-1
- 1-4294-0382-9
- OCLC:
- 476011018
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