Portuguese Syntax New Comparative Studies [Paperback]

This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement,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.

Introduction,Joao Costa
1. Infinitives vs. Participles,Manuela Ambar
2. Clitics: A Window into the Null Subject Property,Pilar Barbosa
3. Word Order and Discourse Configurationality in European Portuguese,Joao Costa
4. Romance Clitics and the Minimalist Program,Ines Duarte & Gabriela Matos
5. Agreement, Predication, and Pronouns in the History of Portuguese,Charlotte Galves
6. A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing,Ana Maria Martins
7. 1st Person Plural Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese: Chains and Constraint Interaction in Binding,SXergio Menuzzi
8. Distributive Universal Quantification and Aspect in Brazilian Portuguese,Gertjan Postma
9 Clitic Positions and Verb Movement.Eduardo Raposo
Bibliography
Index

Joao Costais Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.