A note on Wh-islands and Finite Control in Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v8i2.1129Keywords:
Controle finito, Hiperalçamento, Ilha-qu, Teoria de controle por movimento, Português brasileiroAbstract
This paper discusses Ferreira’s (2000, 2004, 2009) claim that selective intervention effects in wh-island constructions in Brazilian Portuguese provide evidence for analyzing its referential null subjects as traces of A-movement. Based on the fact that intervening traces of wh-phrases in [Spec,CP] never prevent A-movement of an embedded subject out of an embedded declarative clause, I argue that a filled [Spec,CP] does not block A-movement either. Reinterpreting Ferreira’s data, I propose instead that A-movement is blocked if there is an intervening [Spec,TopP].
KEYWORDS: finite control, hyper-raising, wh-islands, movement theory of control, Brazilian Portuguese.
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BARRIE, M. Control and wh-infinitivals. In: DAVIS, W.; DUBINSKY, S. (eds.). New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising, Dordrecht: Springer; 2007. p. 263-279.
BASTOS, A. C. The Brazilian-style of multiple subject constructions. Nanzan Linguistics: Special Issue 3, v. 2, p. 17-34, 2008.
BELLETTI, A. Aspects of the low IP area. In: RIZZI, L. (ed.). The structure of CP and IP. The cartography of syntactic structures. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. p. 16-51.
BOECKX, C.; HORNSTEIN, J.; NUNES, J. Control as Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
BOŠkOVIĆ, Ž. On the locality and motivation of Move and Agree: An even more minimal theory. Linguistic Inquiry, v. 38, p. 589-645, 2007.
BRITTO, H. Deslocamento à esquerda, resumptivo-sujeito, ordem SV e a codificação sintáctica de juízos categórico e tético no português do Brasil. Tese (Doutorado) ― Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 1997.
CHOMSKY, N. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
CHOMSKY, N. Minimalist inquiries: The framework. In: MARTIN, R.; MICHAELS, D.; URIAGEREJKA, J. (eds.). Step by step: essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. p. 81-155.
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DOBROVIE-SORIN, C. The Syntax of Romanian. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
DUARTE, M. E. A perda do princípio “Evite Pronome” no português brasileiro. Tese (Doutorado) ― Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas. 1995.
EMONDS, J. A Transformational Approach to English Syntax. New York: Academic Press, 1976.
FERREIRA, M. Argumentos nulos em português brasileiro. Dissertação (Mestrado) ― Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas. 2000.
FERREIRA, M. Hyperraising and null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 47: Collected Papers on Romance Syntax, p. 57-85, 2004.
FERREIRA, M. Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese. In: NUNES, J. (ed.). Minimalist essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Amsterdam: John Benjamins; 2009. p. 57-85.
FIGUEREIDO SILVA, M. C. A posição do sujeito no Português Brasileiro: frases finitas e infinitivas. Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP, 1996.
GALVES, C. A sintaxe do português brasileiro. Ensaios de Lingüística, v. 13, p. 31-49, 1987.
GALVES, C. Ensaios sobre as Gramáticas do Português. Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP, 2001.
GROSU, A.; HORVATH, J. The GB theory and raising in Romanian. CHOMSKY, N. The Minimalist program. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
GROSU, A.; HORVATH, J. On nonfiniteness in extraction constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, v. 5, p. 181-196, 1987.
HORNSTEIN, N. Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
KATO, M. A. Tópico e sujeito: Duas categorias em sintaxe? Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos v. 17, p. 109-132, 1989.
KATO, M. A. Strong pronouns, weak pronominals and the null subject parameter. Probus v. 11, p. 1-37, 1999.
KATO, M. A.; NEGRÃO, E. (eds.). Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter. Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana & Vervuert, 2000.
LANDAU, I. Movement out of control. Linguistic Inquiry, v. 34, p. 471-498, 2003..
MARTINS, A. M.; NUNES, J. Raising issues in Brazilian and European Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics v. 4, p. 53-77, 2005.
MARTINS, A. M.; NUNES, J. Syntactic change as chain reaction: The emergence of hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese. In: CRISMA, P.; LONGOBARDI, G. (eds.). Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 144-157.
MARTINS, A. M.; NUNES, J. Apparent hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese: Agreement with topics across a finite CP. In: PANAGIOTIDIS, E. P. (ed.). The Complementiser Phase: Subjects and Wh-dependencies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
MODESTO, M. On the identification of null arguments. Doctoral dissertation - University of Southern California, 2000.
NEGRÃO, E. O português brasileiro: Uma língua voltada para o discurso. Tese (Livre-Docência) - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1999.
NUNES, J. O famigerado se: Uma análise sincrônica e diacrônica das construções com se apassivador e indeterminador”. Dissertação (Mestrado) ― Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem da Universidade
Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 1990.
NUNES, J. Sideward movement. Linguistic Inquiry, v. 31, p. 303-344, 2001.
NUNES, J. Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.
NUNES, J. Inherent Case as a licensing condition for A-movement: The case of hyper-raising constructions in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, v. 7, p. 83-108, 2008.
NUNES, J. Dummy prepositions and the licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. In: ABOH, E.; van der LINDEN, E.; QUER, J.; SLEEMAN, P. (eds.). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2007. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. p. 243-265.
NUNES, J.; URIAGEREKA, J. Cyclicity and extraction domains. Syntax, v. 3, p. 20-43, 2000.
PONTES, E. O Tópico no Português do Brasil. Campinas: Pontes, 1987.
RIZZI, L. Relativized minimality. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
RODRIGUES, C. Morphology and null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. In: LIGHTFOOT, D. (ed.). Syntactic effects of Morphological Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2002. p. 160-178.
RODRIGUES, C. Impoverished morphology and A-movement out of Case domains. Doctoral dissertation - University of Maryland at College Park, 2004.
ROSS, J. R. Pronoun deletion process in German. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. San Diego, 1982.
URA, H. Varieties of raising and the feature-based bare phrase structure theory. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, v. 7, 1994.
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NUNES, J. A note on Wh-islands and Finite Control in Brazilian Portuguese. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 2, p. 79-103, 2010. DOI: 10.22481/el.v8i2.1129. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1129. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.
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