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Subject Positions and Interfaces: The Case of European Portuguese

Subject Positions and Interfaces: The Case of European Portuguese

Costa, João

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg], Book 73

Miscellaneous LanguagesPortugueseLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110181126
ISBN13: 9783110181128
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 26 2004
Pages: 217
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV.

The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec, AgrP, Spec, TP and Spec, VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery.

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