Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics : 20 Years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais.

Intro -- Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- References -- Brazilian Portuguese, syntax and semantics: Twenty years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais -- 1. Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais - NEG -- 2. This volume -- References -- Informal formal conversation on Syntax-Semantics -- 1. Opening remarks -- 2. Left periphery and the semantics of topic -- 3. Speech reports and freezing effects -- 4. Epistemology of linguistics -- 5. Cinque's hierarchy -- 6. Universal grammar, principles and parameters -- 7. Syntax, semantics and cognition -- References -- From discourse to the DP -- Chapter 1. Mood alternations in the history of German: The architecture of epistemic weakening -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reportative competence in modern German -- 3. Breaking the ground for term and content of epistemic weakening -- 4. Epistemic weakening: The case of predicative epistemics as verbal mood in subordinate clauses - synchronic and diachronic stages -- 5. Epistemic weakening: The case of relative clauses and mood alternation -- 5.1 Cimbrian -- 6. Epistemic weakening: Force types of subordinators -- 6.1 -- 6.2 Summary -- 7. Conclusion: Present and past subjunctive in modern German -- 7.1 Matrix predicates as epistemic weakeners -- 7.2 Non-specificity as an epistemic weakener in attributes and relative clauses -- 7.3 Epistemic weakening on complementizers -- 7.4 Negation as an epistemic weakener -- 8. Outgoing: The main and most general points -- 9. Summary and conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 2. Use-conditional expressions and nonlocal interpretation: A case study of a Brazilian Portuguese structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The range and constraints of [DP EI de DP]: Morphosyntactic properties -- 3. The EI in 'essa droga de': Semantic and pragmatic issues.

4. Pragmatics only?: Towards an understating of [DP EI de DP] -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Funding information -- Chapter 3. Left- and Right-Dislocation and the speaker's perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Left-peripheral topics -- 3. Left vs. Right Dislocation -- 3.1 On the syntactic analysis of Right Dislocation -- 4. Types of topics and discourse properties -- 5. Dislocations, Familiarity, and the speaker's perspective -- 5.1 Dislocations -- 5.2 Left vs. Right Dislocation -- 6. German "familiar" particles doch and ja and their Italian counterparts -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. Brazilian double subjects and sentence structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject doubling in Brazilian Portuguese -- 2.1 Current positions on the status of double subject sentences -- 2.2 A new hypothesis and some questions -- 3. The cartography of subject positions -- 4. A cartography analysis of the double subject sentences -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese and Quebec French -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The diachronic evolution of wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese and Quebec French -- 1.2 Theoretical assumptions -- 2. The analysis -- 2.1 The loss of the wh-V2 pattern -- 2.2 The entry of the cleft question of the inverse type -- 2.3 The loss of long wh-movement -- 2.4 From inverse-wh-clefts to canonic wh-clefts -- 2.5 The apparent double filled Comp pattern -- 2.6 The appearance of wh-SV, the last innovation -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6. Some low ellipses in Portuguese: A phase-based analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. V-VPE in Portuguese -- 3. Properties of ANOs in BP -- 4. ANOs: Why ellipsis and why not V-VPE? -- 5. ASPP and elliptical phases -- 6. Some predictions and problems -- 7. Final remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Funding information -- Chapter 7. Diagnosing verb raising: The view from cartography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cross-linguistic differences on V-to-I and the split-IP -- 3. Cinque's (1999) hierarchy of adverbs -- 4. A pinch of methodology -- 5. Verb raising across low AdvPs in BP and PS: The finite and infinitive forms -- 6. High adverbs -- 7. Conclusions and further issues -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. Brazilian bare nouns in quantity judgments: Kinds and atomicity -- 1. The state of the art on mass and count -- 2. The bare singular in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3. Two outliers in Scontras et al. (2017) -- 4. The bare singular in BrP, another outlier? -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Design and methods -- 4.3 Description of the results -- 5. Bare nouns in BrP and the absence of linguistic cues to atomicity -- 6. Semantic parameters? -- References -- Funding information -- Afterword -- Index.

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