Inversão locativa e sintaxe de concordância no português brasileiro

Juanito Ornelas de Avelar

Locative inversion and agreement syntax in Brazilian Portuguese

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Juanito Ornelas de Avelar UNICAMP

Keywords:

locative prepositional phrases, agrément, subject position, Case, Minimalist Program.

Abstract

Adopting the Minimalist Program framework (CHOMSKY 2000, 2001), this paper suggests that, in Brazilian Portuguese, sentences with a locative prepositional phrase in preverbal position can be characterized as instances of locative inversion in which prepositional constituents occupy the grammatical subject position. It will be proposed that particularities involving the patterns of locative inversion in Brazilian Portuguese derive from properties of the subject-verb agreement in this language.

Author Biography

Juanito Ornelas de Avelar, UNICAMP

Professor Doutor do Departamento de Linguística da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Suas pesquisas são voltadas à sintaxe do português brasileiro, dentro da versão minimalista da Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros. Recentemente, publicou o livro Ter, Ser e Estar – Dinâmicas Morfossintáticas no Português Brasileiro e o artigo On the emergence of ‘ter' as an existential verb in Brazilian Portuguese , ambos sobre propriedades das sentenças possessivo-existenciais.

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Published

2009-12-30

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Avelar, J. O. de. (2009). Locative inversion and agreement syntax in Brazilian Portuguese. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 16(24). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/27805

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Vol. 16 No. 24 (2009): Contemporary Theories of Grammar

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Linguistic Papers

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