graduation at Licenciatura Plena Em Português e Literaturas de L from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1986), master's at Linguistics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1990), master's at Masters Program In Linguistics from University of Maryland at College Park (1994) and doctorate at Doctorate Program In Linguistics from University of Maryland at College Park (1995). Has experience in Linguistics, focusing on Linguistics, acting on the following subjects: português brasileiro, minimalismo, teoria de movimento por cópia, teoria de controle and sujeito nulo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Multiple interrogatives have always posed challenging questions to syntactic theory. On the one hand, they exhibit complexities that do not follow from a simple incremental computation of more than one simple interrogative. On the other hand, they display a much wider spectrum of diversity when compared to simple interrogatives. Thus, one may find languages that simply do not allow for mu…
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This research seeks to investigate the place of Information Structure (IS) in the architecture of the grammar, based on the traditional Y-model of the grammar, where syntax mediates the sound and meaning components, through Phonological Form (PF) and Logical Form (LF). In order to do that, we seek to investigate how informational processes such as topicalization and focalization interact …
Lebeaux (1988) argued that some of the idioms formed by verb + direct object have frozen determinants, while others prohibit them. These two groups also present a contrast regarding the possibility of passivization: idioms without determinants passivize freely, while those with frozen determinants resist this operation. Bruening (2010) and Bruening et. al (2018), on the other hand, propos…
This project investigates argument ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP). The investigation concentrates on two areas: (i) the conditions under which argument ellipsis is licensed; (ii) variation in the licensing of argument ellipsis. With regard to the former area of investigation, two topics will be examined: (a) distributional restrictions on the licensing …
There is a consensus in the generative literature that the null subject of Brazilian Portuguese does not behave like its counterpart in standard pro-drop languages. This project examines from an experimental perspective two approaches to this null subject: the analysis in terms of topic chain (Modesto 2000, 2011) and the analysis in terms of movement (Ferreira 2000, Rodrigues 2004, Nunes …
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To motivate successive cyclic movement in the phase-based model, Chomsky (2000) proposes that, once a phase is built, its head is assigned an EPP-feature, triggering wh-movement. Boskovic (2007) points out problems for this proposal, arguing that the triggering feature is carried by the wh-element itself. In research resulting from FAPESP support, Nunes (2021a) shows that this approach ca…
The literature on idioms points to the possibility of grouping them according to their degree of frozenness. After building a corpus of idiomatic VPs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), we applied the syntactic operations used by Nunberg, Sag and Wasow (1994) to differentiate two groups of idioms and we observed that BP idioms are more restrictive than their English counterparts. We also found …
Assuming the general framework of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and taking into account some typological specificities of Portuguese, the project aims at searching a characterization of edge features that is able to handle successive cyclic movement in a local manner and also account for why A-movement triggered by edge features may license otherwise illicit cases of A-movement. (…
Assuming the general framework of the Principles and Parameters Theory (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, among others) in its recent minimalist formulations (see Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, the aim of this project is two investigate two independent questions: (i) the nature of adjunction structures within the bare phrase structure model; and (ii) the lack of passives o…
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