On romance syntactic complex predicates: why Brazilian Portuguese is different
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v8i1.1120Keywords:
Subida de clítico, Predicados complexos sintáticos, ECM, Infinitivo flexionado, Português Brasileiro, Teoria de Princípios e ParâmetrosAbstract
I analyze clitic climbing as the effect of Romance syntactic complex predicate formation: the non-finite verb phrase moves to the specifier of the upper V. This movement forms a complex predicate so as to allow for a configuration where clitics can climb. Crucial for this movement is the presence of a defective C-T. The lack of clitic climbing in Brazilian Portuguese is but one consequence of a non-defective C-T system in these structures. As a consequence, we have the possibility for certain constructions to occur in the language; in fact, they are presented as additional evidence for the proposal.
KEYWORDS: Clitic climbing. Syntactic complex predicates. ECM. Inflected infinitives. Brazilian Portuguese. Principles & Parameters Theory.
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CYRINO, S. On complex predicates in Brazilian Portuguese. In: 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), 2008. University of Illinois at Urbana, 2008a.
CYRINO, S. On the lack of complex predicates in Brazilian Portuguese. In: 18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, 2008. University of Lisbon, 2008b.
CYRINO, S. The loss of clitic climbing in Brazilian Portuguese revisited. In: X DiGS, 2008. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 2008c.
CYRINO, S. Towards a novel account for the rise of periphrastic tenses in Romance. In: XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2009.
GALVES, C. Ensaios sobre as gramáticas do português. Campina: Editora da Unicamp, 2001.
GALVES, C. Clitiques et accord en portugais du brésil. In: Schlieben-Lange, B. I.; Galves, C., Torres-Morais, M. A.; Ribeiro, I. Syntax and morphology in the placement of clitics in European and
Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics. v. 4, n. 2, p. 143-177, 2002.
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GONÇALVES, A. Predicados Complexos Verbais em Contextos de Infinitivo não Preposicionado do Português Europeu. PhDdissertation - University of Lisboa, 1999.
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KAYNE, R. Toward a modular theory of auxiliary selection. Studia linguistica. v. 47, p. 3-31, 1993.
MARTINS, A. M.; NUNES, J. Apparent Hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese: Agreement with Topics across a Finite CP”. In: Panagiotidis, P. E. (org.): The Complementiser Phase: Subjects and Operators. Oxford University Press, 2010. p. 143-163.
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MIOTO, C. 2003. Focalização e quantificação. Revista Letras. Curitiba, n. 61, especial, p. 169-189, 2003.
NUNES, J. Linearization of chains and sideward movement. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
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PESETSKY, D.; TORREGO, E. T-to-C movement: Causes and consequences. In: Kenstowicz, M. (ed.). Ken Hale: Alife in language. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. p. 355–426.
POSTAL, P. On Raising. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974.
ROBERTS, I. Restructuring, head movement, and locality. Linguistic Inquiry, n. 28, p. 423-460, 1997.
ROBERTS, I. Clitics, head movement and incorporation, ms, University of Cambridge, 2008.
RIZZI, L. Issues in Italian Syntax. Foris: Dordrecht, 1982.
SITARIDOU, I. The Synchrony and Diachrony of Romance Infinitives with Nominative Subjects. PhD Thesis - University of Manchester, Manchester, 2002.
SZABOLCSI, A. Hidden in Plain Sight: Overt Subjects in Infinitival Control and Raising Complements. accessible at:http://homepages.nyu.edu/~as109/Szabolcsi_Hidden_in_plain_sight.May_2008.pdf.. 2008.
WURMBRAND, S. Infinitives: restructuring and clause structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
WURMBRAND, S. Two types of restructuring - Lexical vs. functional. Lingua, 114, 8, p. 991-1014, 2004.
ZANUTTINI, R.. On the Relevance of Tense for Sentential Negation.In: Belletti, A.; Rizzi, L. (ed.). Parameters and Functional Heads. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. p.181-207.
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CYRINO, S. M. L. On romance syntactic complex predicates: why Brazilian Portuguese is different. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 1, p. 182-222, 2010. DOI: 10.22481/el.v8i1.1120. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1120. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.
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