Complement Clauses In Portuguese

Author : Ana Lúcia Santos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263965
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Esmeralda Vailati Negrão
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese Complement Structures written by Esmeralda Vailati Negrão and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Courtney Tarr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prepositional Complementary Clauses in Spanish written by Frederick Courtney Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198723784
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony written by Adriana Cardoso and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in Portuguese and other languages. It offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese and an overview of competing theoretical analyses.

Author : R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199297878
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complementation written by R.M.W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses, and the types of verbs which take them. Some languages lack a complement clause construction but instead employ other construction types to achieve similar ends; these are called complementation strategies. The book explores the variety of types of complementation foundacross the languages of the world, their grammatical properties and meanings. Detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German, are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which drawstogether the evidence and the arguments. This book will interest scholars of typology, language universals, syntax, information structure, and language contact in departments of linguistics and anthropology, as well as advanced and graduate students taking courses in these subjects.

Author : Claudia Felser
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299277
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbal Complement Clauses written by Claudia Felser and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the major syntactic and semantic characteristics of non-finite complements of perception verbs in English. The third chapter presents an analysis within the framework of Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist Program according to which event-denoting complements are minimally realised as projections of an aspectual head. In the next chapter, it is argued that verbs capable of licensing aspectual complement clauses must be able to function as a special type of control predicate, an assumption which is shown to account for a number of seemingly unrelated properties of the constructions under consideration. The final chapter examines syntactically reduced clausal complements from a cross-linguistic perspective, showing that Southern Romance languages differ from Germanic ones with respect to the availability of 'bare' aspectual complement clauses, a difference that is attributed to morphological properties of verbs in these languages.

Author : Kasper Boye
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110416611
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complementizer Semantics in European Languages written by Kasper Boye and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Author : Emily E. Scida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113587607X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages written by Emily E. Scida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from Early Romance. The syntactic analysis offered here differs from traditional descriptions of the inflected infinitive in that it uses a theoretical approach to propose one concise condition which predicts all possible occurrences of the Portuguese inflected infinitive within the framework of relational grammar. While the first section of this book offers a synchronic study of the use of the inflected infinitive, the second section examines the theories previously posited to explain its origin and provides additional evidence from Latin and other Romance languages to support the proposal that the inflected infinitive was a historical development rooted in the Latin imperfect subjunctive. This study presents a detailed comparison of the syntactic environments common to both the imperfect subjunctive and the inflected infinitive, and examines the survival of an inflected infinitive in other Romance varieties as well as the existence of other inflected non-finite forms in these languages.

Author : Ludovico Franco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505106
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation written by Ludovico Franco and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects.

Author : Joao Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352211
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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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.