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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 : 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.

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 : João Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195125754
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Portuguese Syntax by : João Costa

Download or read book Portuguese Syntax written by João Costa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 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 and Semantics of the Subjuntive Mood in Brazilian Portuguese

Author : Giselle De Almeida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax and Semantics of the Subjuntive Mood in Brazilian Portuguese by : Giselle De Almeida

Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of the Subjuntive Mood in Brazilian Portuguese written by Giselle De Almeida and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar

Author : Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar by : Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno

Download or read book Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar written by Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Middle-field Syntax and Information Structure in Brazilian Portuguese

Author : Renato Cesar Lacerda Ferreira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Middle-field Syntax and Information Structure in Brazilian Portuguese written by Renato Cesar Lacerda Ferreira and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian Portuguese is a language that makes prolific use of word-order permutations to indicate Information Structure processes (topicalization and focalization); in particular, two main areas of the clause (left periphery and middle field) can host dislocated elements with non-neutral interpretation in discourse. This dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of the Syntax-Information Structure interface in natural languages by investigating the syntactic and informational properties of elements displaced to the middle field of Brazilian Portuguese, through a systematic comparison with its left periphery. I investigate the conditions regulating the distribution of different types of topics and foci, aiming to shed light on the question of how syntactic structures are mapped onto the Information Structure component of the grammar. The investigation reveals a number of asymmetries between the left periphery and the middle field; most notably, the informational roles available in the latter are a proper subset of those available in the former. This observation allows us to address a number of factors that play a role in the licensing of different topics and foci in the language. I also show that the same structural position can license more than one informational role and that the same informational role can be licensed in more than one structural position (e.g., aboutness topic interpretation is possible in both the subject position and a left-peripheral topic position). Based on that observation, I argue for a contextual approach to Information Structure, where topics and foci are not tied to structurally-fixed positions in the clause, but are instead contextually licensed based on their relative position with respect to each other and other information-structure elements. In doing so, I analyze the structural make-up of the middle field of Brazilian Portuguese. I argue that the language has (formally-driven) object shift to an independent projection above vP, to which middle-field topics adjoin. The comparison of syntactic and interpretive properties of shifted objects and middle-field topics is shown to have a number of consequences for different theoretical issues, including labeling and locality/phases, and provides evidence for the status of Information Structure as an independent component of the grammar.

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.

Studies on Variation in Portuguese

Author : Pilar Barbosa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265143
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies on Variation in Portuguese by : Pilar Barbosa

Download or read book Studies on Variation in Portuguese written by Pilar Barbosa and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated to research on variation within national varieties (Brazilian and European). Here, a multidimensional analysis that combines both the geographic and the social dimensions of variation emerges as a way to identify possible regional specificities and the directionality of some of the variants. Part 2 collects studies that compare the behavior of a particular linguistic variable across different varieties. The variable phenomena discussed concern several levels of grammar and are framed within different conceptions of variation, thus promoting confrontation of theoretical and methodological alternatives. Overall, the volume constitutes a significant contribution to the essential question of how to model variation at different levels.