Complement clauses in Portuguese : syntax and acquisition /

"This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge abou...

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Other Authors: Santos, Ana Lúcia (Editor), Gonçalves, Anabela (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Ser.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Complement clauses in Portuguese: Some facts and open questions / Anabela Gonçalves & Ana Lúcia Santos
  • Control of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese / Michelle Sheehan
  • Inflected infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and the theory of Control / Marcello Modesto
  • Infinitival complements of causative/perception verbs in a diachronic perspective / Ana Maria Martins
  • Controlled overt pronouns as specificational predicates / Pilar P. Barbosa
  • (Hyper)-raising in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish: Interaction between case and agreement / Acrisio Pires & Will Nediger
  • Subjunctive and subject obviation in Portuguese / Rui Marques
  • Comments on complementation in Portuguese / Inês Duarte
  • The acquisition of control in European Portuguese / Celina Agostinho, Ana Lúcia Santos & Inês Duarte
  • The acquisition of infinitival complements to causative verbs in Mozambican Portuguese / Anabela Gonçalves, Ana Lúcia Santos, Inês Duarte & Víctor Justino
  • Inflected infinitives in L2 Portuguese / Ana Madeira
  • How Portuguese children interpret subject pronouns in complement clauses: Effects of mood selection and position of antecedent / Carolina Silva
  • Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese / Nina Hyams.