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Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais
Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 260] 2020
► pp. 7–30

Informal formal conversation on Syntax-Semantics

| University of Massachusetts at Amherst
| Collège de France, Paris
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/CNPq
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
| Macau University of Science and Technology
Article outline
  • 1.Opening remarks
  • 2.Left periphery and the semantics of topic
  • 3.Speech reports and freezing effects
  • 4.Epistemology of linguistics
  • 5.Cinque’s hierarchy
  • 6.Universal grammar, principles and parameters
  • 7.Syntax, semantics and cognition
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 May 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.260.01kra
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