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Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics

Author : Roberta Pires De Oliveira
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261202
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics by : Roberta Pires De Oliveira

Download or read book Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics written by Roberta Pires De Oliveira and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in Brazilian Portuguese, left and right dislocation and the speaker’s perspective in Italian, Brazilian double subjects and left dislocated topic, long versus short wh-movement in Brazilian Portuguese and Quebec French, low adverbs and the raising of the verb in Brazilian Portuguese, ellipsis and null objects in Brazilian and European Portuguese, and bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese. The chapters propose original accounts for language variation and historical changes, most of them focusing on Brazilian Portuguese, a challenge to syntax and semantics. Thus, the volume contributes to Brazilian and Portuguese Linguistics, as well as to general and contemporary research on syntax and semantics of natural languages.

Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese

Author : Albert Wall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264651
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese by : Albert Wall

Download or read book Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese written by Albert Wall and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate analysis of these forms as well as the establishment of a solid empirical basis for future research. The book goes further than previous accounts in also taking into consideration the phonetic-phonological dimension, showing the advantages of a more comprehensive account. The empirical section outlines an innovative approach in which different methods and data types are combined and focuses on the underresearched definite / specific / referential uses and interpretations of bare singulars. The book also addresses the traditional topics in the study of bare nominals – genericity, the mass/count distinction, NP-internal plural agreement, the NP/DP distinction, and syntax-semantics-phonology interface questions – in the light of the new findings.

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics

Author : W. Leo Wetzels
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119096766
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics by : W. Leo Wetzels

Download or read book The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics written by W. Leo Wetzels and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Author : Jairo Nunes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289530
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax by : Jairo Nunes

Download or read book Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax written by Jairo Nunes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Complement Clauses in Portuguese

Author : Ana Lúcia Santos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263965
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Complement Clauses in Portuguese by : Ana Lúcia Santos

Download or read book Complement Clauses in Portuguese written by Ana Lúcia Santos and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Syntax

Author : Joao Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352211
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Portuguese Syntax by : Joao Costa

Download or read book Portuguese Syntax written by Joao Costa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. The articles are written within the principles and parameters framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.

The Syntax of Portuguese

Author : Mary A. Kato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052186061X
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Portuguese by : Mary A. Kato

Download or read book The Syntax of Portuguese written by Mary A. Kato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter

Author : Mary Aizawa Kato
Publisher : Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter by : Mary Aizawa Kato

Download or read book Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter written by Mary Aizawa Kato and published by Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese

Author : Gláucia V. Silva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110869551
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese by : Gláucia V. Silva

Download or read book Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese written by Gláucia V. Silva and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a new contribution to syntactic theory. The reader will find a clear overview of the central facts concerning Brazilian Portuguese (BP) word order, as well as a comparison to the facts in other Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, and French). In relating other Romance languages to BP, the book shows that BP word order has a number of interesting restrictions that set this language clearly apart from the other Romance languages. This volume provides accounts for declaratives and interrogatives found not only in BP but also in the other Romance languages discussed, taking into consideration parametric differences among the languages studied.

Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language

Author : Karina Veronica Molsing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261504
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language by : Karina Veronica Molsing

Download or read book Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language written by Karina Veronica Molsing and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely dedicated to Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL). This volume showcases the breadth of research being carried out on topics ranging from the acquisition of aspects from the main language modules (syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics) to applied perspectives involving corpus-based approaches and experimental methodologies. Moreover, we present studies addressing a variety of learning contexts and learner types. The target audience includes researching scholars with a background in second language acquisition studies interested in learning more about the acquisition of Portuguese as an Additional Language from linguistic perspectives.

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics

Author : Johannes Kabatek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110405954
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics by : Johannes Kabatek

Download or read book Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics written by Johannes Kabatek and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spoken Portuguese”, and the project “Towards a History of Brazilian Portuguese” (PHPB), among others. Further chapters of high contemporary interest and relevance include the study of linguistic policies and psycholinguistics. The manual offers theoretical insights of general interest, not least since many chapters present the linguistic data in the light of a combination of formal, functional, generative and sociolinguistic approaches. This rather unique feature of the volume is achieved by the double authorship of some of the relevant chapters, thus bringing together and synthesizing different perspectives.

The Syntax of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Author : Earl W. Thomas
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826512215
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese by : Earl W. Thomas

Download or read book The Syntax of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese written by Earl W. Thomas and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased personal contact among people of all parts of the world has underscored the inadequacy of traditional language study to meet contemporary communications needs. Linguistic science, in recent years, has responded to this breakdown of communications by emphasizing spoken, versus literary, language in the teaching of foreign languages. Very real differences do exist between what is spoken and what is written in virtually every language. In Brazilian Portuguese, especially, the gulf between the two is wide: In many cases, the most cultured Brazilian is unable to comprehend with ease Brazilian literature written only fifty years ago. THE SYNTAX OF SPOKEN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE is the first thorough analysis of the spoken language of contemporary Brazil, in English, for students and teachers of the language. Useful as a text in advanced language courses, the work is intended primarily for reference and as a research aid to future authors of Portuguese language textbooks.

Subject Positions and Interfaces

Author : João Costa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197391
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Subject Positions and Interfaces by : João Costa

Download or read book Subject Positions and Interfaces written by João Costa and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec,AgrP, Spec,TP and Spec,VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery. It is shown that there is no free variation. Each of these positions may be occupied by the subject, only if two requirements are met: i) The position is made available by syntax; ii) The position does not violate any interface condition. In other words, the following model is argued for: syntax generates legitimate outputs. At the interface levels, each output may be selected or filtred out, according to requirements of the interface. The picture emerging from the proposal made in this book is the following: syntax proper does not need to refer to conditions best placed at the interface. All that is needed from syntax is that it generates an array of well-formed outputs. Such outputs may be evaluated a posteriori by each of the interfaces. If they meet requirements of the interface, they are selected as legitimate. If, on the contrary, some interface condition is violated, they are ruled out. Under this approach, three in-dependent results are derived: i) an explanation is found for the patterns of word order variation; ii) syntax proper may be reduced to its own tools, not having to manipulate semantic, discourse or prosodic variables; iii) the intuition that European Portuguese is an SVO language is derived: this word order corresponds to the one in which the subject occupies the only specifier position in which the other interfaces play no role.

Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Author : Jairo Nunes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255253
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax by : Jairo Nunes

Download or read book Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax written by Jairo Nunes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Time and TAME in Language

Author : Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867969
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Time and TAME in Language by : Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños

Download or read book Time and TAME in Language written by Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time. The authors include well-renowned researchers as well as new contributors to the field who present cutting-edge research on a variety of topics, ranging from the fundamental nature of time to formal approaches to specific tense-aspect structures as well as their interaction with other grammatical categories. This volume represents a valuable contribution to the field and will be of interest to scholars studying the representation of time in language as well as to syntacticians and semanticists in general.

Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions

Author : Simone Guesser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111183173
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions written by Simone Guesser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system. Throughout these years, important contributions have been made on Brazilian Portuguese, especially on wh-interrogative sentences, focalization, topicalization and relative clauses. As for exclamative and imperative sentences, however, there is a considerable research gap in all grammatical levels. Regarding interrogatives, semantic and prosodic studies are still lacking (as well as research on the acquisition and processing of these constructions). This collected volume fills some of those gaps, gathering studies on wh-exclamatives, imperatives and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese which approach syntactical, semantical and prosodic aspects of these constructions through a rich and unregistered set of data. They also deliver novel acquisition and diachronic data that will further both the comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and the ongoing discussions on left periphery phenomena.

The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America

Author : Mary A. Kato
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190465905
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America by : Mary A. Kato

Download or read book The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America written by Mary A. Kato and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.