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Third Factors in Language Variation and Change
Provides a unique angle, by linking insights from theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change.
Adverbs and Adverbials
Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this volume all address this categorial problem from a variety of formal and functional points of view. In the first part, current definitions of the class for Romance and Germanic languages are being questioned and improved, drawing on data from English, German and Italian. The second part is devoted to adverbial scope in Romance (French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese), Germanic, Modern Greek and Chinese, under special consideration of modal adverbs, subject-oriented manner adverbs and domain adverbs and adverbials. Syntactic and semantic relationships appear to lay the ground for a robust and fine-grained functional definition of adverbs and adverbials.
On Linearization
The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax. Linearization, or the typical sequence of words in a sentence, varies tremendously from language to language. Why, for example, does the English phrase “a white table” need a different word order from the French phrase “une table blanche,” even though both refer to the same object? Guglielmo Cinque challenges the current understanding of word order variation, which assumes that word order can be dealt with simply by putting a head either before or after its complements and modifiers. The subtle variations in word order, he say...
Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions
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 Syntax of Portuguese
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, Syntax and Semantics
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.
Estudos do discurso
Esta obra tratados conceitos fundantes das pesquisas linguísticas sobre o discurso. São diversos conceitos tratados por diferentes perspectivas teóricas, porém com as aproximações com que uma rede conceitual se tece e constitui um campo de estudos fértil e complexo, como o é o discurso. Cada capítulo traz o ponto de vista de um renomado pesquisador, nacional ou internacional, cujo objeto de investigação tem sido o discurso.
Gramáticas na escola
Esta obra é um convite para o professor de Português refletir sobre as línguas: observar um fenômeno, "altas festa", elaborar hipóteses sobre a gramática que gera e interpretar essa forma (e muitas outras, 'baita festa', 'altos vestido') e verificar hipóteses da língua do aluno, que ele domina, para a construção de gramáticas, e modelos explícitos desse conhecimento.
Gramática descritiva do português brasileiro
Esta Gramática descreve o português tal como se fala atualmente no Brasil. O leitor encontrará aqui muitos dos resultados da pesquisa recente que se tem realizado intensivamente em nosso país, e uma visão coerente e abrangente da estrutura de nossa língua falada. O autor evita discussões teóricas, tornando o texto acessível aos estudiosos, mesmo àqueles que não possuem formação específica em linguística.
