Subject Positions and Interfaces : The Case of European Portuguese.
Title:
Subject Positions and Interfaces : The Case of European Portuguese.
Author:
Costa, João.
ISBN:
9783110197396
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.73
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preverbal subjects: Spec,IP or left-dislocated? -- 3. Postverbal subjects: syntax and discourse - VSO and VOS orders -- 4. Inversion and information structure -- 5. Optionality and left-dislocated subjects: semantic and discourse properties -- 6. Subjects in Spec,TP and the interface with morphology -- 7. Syntactic outputs and the interfaces -- 8. Summary and conclusions -- Appendix: On the nature of agreement in European Portuguese -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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