Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Word order in Brazilian Portuguese -- 2 Overview of the Minimalist Program -- 3 Analyses before Minimalism -- 3.1 Declaratives -- 3.2 Wh-questions -- 4 Minimalist accounts -- 5 Structure of the study -- 2 Basic order in déclaratives -- 1 Basic word order -- 2 Adverb position -- 2.1 Overt verb movement in French -- 2.2 Adverb position in a structure without AgrP -- 3 Sentential adverbs -- 4 Verb position and other adverbs in Brazilian Portuguese -- 4.1 Adverbs and compound verbs -- 4.2 The position of já -- 5 Conclusion -- 3 Postverbal subjects in Brazilian Portuguese -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Unaccusative Hypothesis -- 2.1 Unaccusatives in Spanish -- 3 Unaccusatives in Brazilian Portuguese -- 4 Verb-subject order in Brazilian Portuguese -- 4.1 Locative inversion -- 4.2 VS and unaccusatives -- 4.3 VS with other verbs -- 5 Conclusion -- 4 Verb movement in interrogatives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Interrogatives in Romance: paradigms -- 2.1 Diagnostics for wh-movement -- 3 The Wh-Criterion -- 4 Accounts for Spanish: no V-to-C -- 5 Questions raised by V-to-C -- 5.1 Verb position in interrogatives -- 5.2 Subject position in interrogatives -- 6 Embedded interrogatives -- 7 Previous studies of Brazilian Portuguese interrogatives -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.