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Title Brazilian Portuguese, syntax and semantics : 20 years of NĂșcleo de Estudos gramaticais / edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel, Sandra Quarezemin
Published Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; volume 260
Contents 1. Brazilian Portuguese and language variation -- 2. Studies in cartography -- 3. Grammar in context
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Portuguese language -- Dialects -- Brazil
Portuguese language -- Brazil -- Syntax
Portuguese language -- Brazil -- Semantics
Portuguese language -- Dialects
Portuguese language -- Semantics
Portuguese language -- Syntax
Brazil
Form Electronic book
Author Oliveira, Roberta Pires de, editor
Emmel, Ina, editor
Quarezemin, Sandra, editor
LC no. 2020007385
ISBN 9789027261205
9027261202