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A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 248] 2019
► pp. 125–187

Chapter 4
Syntax

Article outline
  • 4.1Verbal syntax
    • 4.1.1Verbal complementation and Verb second (cluster V2)
    • 4.1.2Verb raising
    • 4.1.3Infinitive 1 and infinitive 2 (use)
      • 4.1.3.1Overview
      • 4.1.3.2Use of infinitive 1
      • 4.1.3.3Use of infinitive 2
      • 4.1.3.4 Taum constructions with stacked verbs
      • 4.1.3.5Contexts with infinitive 1 or infinitive 2: Complement clauses
        • 4.1.3.5.1Complement clauses with infinitive 1
        • 4.1.3.5.2Control contexts with infinitive 2
        • 4.1.3.5.3Verbs with varying complementation: inf1 or inf2 without taum
        • 4.1.3.5.4Nominal and adjectival complementation
      • 4.1.3.6Four verb stacking
      • 4.1.3.7BE + taum
      • 4.1.3.8VP coordinations under taum
    • 4.1.4Participle complementation
    • 4.1.5Pseudo-coordination (parataxis)
    • 4.1.6Present participle
    • 4.1.7Modal verbs
      • 4.1.7.1Morphology
      • 4.1.7.2Verb projection raising under modals
      • 4.1.7.3Non verbal complementation to modal verbs
    • 4.1.8Infinitive 2
    • 4.1.9Passive/perfect participles
    • 4.1.10Auxiliary selection
    • 4.1.11The verb daua (lexical and auxiliary verb)
      • 4.1.11.1Lexical verb daua
      • 4.1.11.2Auxiliary daua
      • 4.1.11.3Progressive daua
      • 4.1.11.4Future/obligation (with negation)
      • 4.1.11.5Optative daua
      • 4.1.11.6Periphrastic daua (“do-support”) in embedded clauses
      • 4.1.11.7Syntactic restrictions of auxiliary daua
    • 4.1.12 Bijm + nominalized verb construction
    • 4.1.13NP raising constructions
    • 4.1.14Passive constructions
      • 4.1.14.1The periphrastic passive
      • 4.1.14.2Medio-passive
      • 4.1.14.3The “Active pro passive participle” effect (APP)
  • 4.2Negation
    • 4.2.1Adverbial negation
    • 4.2.2Negation in NPs
    • 4.2.3Negative polarity
  • 4.3Nominal syntax
    • 4.3.1Possessive constructions
    • 4.3.2Empty NPs
    • 4.3.3DP domain
      • 4.3.3.1Coreference
      • 4.3.3.2SE-constructions
    • 4.3.4Adjectival syntax
  • 4.4The CP domain
    • 4.4.1Main clause interrogation
    • 4.4.2Interrogative tags
    • 4.4.3Imperative clauses
    • 4.4.4Exclamative clauses
    • 4.4.5Existential quantification
    • 4.4.6Complementizers
    • 4.4.7Double filled comp
    • 4.4.8Complementizer clitics – enclitic pronouns
    • 4.4.9Complementizer agreement
  • 4.5The structural subject position
    • 4.5.1Null subjects
    • 4.5.2Impersonal constructions
    • 4.5.3Existential constructions
  • 4.6Prepositional syntax
    • 4.6.1Case selection by prepositions
    • 4.6.2 Up ‘on’
    • 4.6.3 Fo(n) ‘of’
    • 4.6.4 Ana – postposition and verbal particle
    • 4.6.5Preposition stranding
    • 4.6.6 Tau ‘to’
    • 4.6.7 Bet ‘until’
    • 4.6.8 Tüschen ‘between’
  • 4.7Sentence integration
    • 4.7.1Parataxis
      • 4.7.1.1Connectors
      • 4.7.1.2Paratactic quantifier restriction
    • 4.7.2Hypotaxis (clausal complementation)
      • 4.7.2.1Subject clauses
      • 4.7.2.2Complement clauses
      • 4.7.2.3Relative clauses
      • 4.7.2.4Free relative clauses
      • 4.7.2.5Complement clauses to NPs, APs, etc.
      • 4.7.2.6Complementizer drop and embedded V2
      • 4.7.2.7Cleft sentences
  • Notes