Brazilian Portuguese, syntax and semantics : 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos gramaticais /

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Imprint:Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; volume 260
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13465453
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Other authors / contributors:Oliveira, Roberta Pires de, editor.
Emmel, Ina, editor.
Quarezemin, Sandra, editor.
ISBN:9789027261205
9027261202
9789027205537
9027205531
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"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 the 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"--
Other form:Print version: Brazilian Portuguese, syntax and semantics. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020 9789027205537