Ana Maria Brito
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ana Maria Brito plays a role.
2017 Chapter 7. Conditions on variation in pre-nominal possessives in European Portuguese Studies on Variation in Portuguese, Barbosa, Pilar, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues (eds.), pp. 177–198 | Chapter
Developing previous studies by Brito (2001, 2007), Castro and Costa (2002, 2003), Castro (2005), Miguel (2002a, 2002b, 2002c, 2004), this paper argues that there is a continuum of variation regarding the syntax of pre-nominal possessives in European Portuguese. There is a dominant, standard… read more
2013 The alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.), pp. 83–116 | Article
This paper analyses the alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative in European Portuguese. We propose that this alternation is lexically restricted, only occurring with weakly assertive cognitive definite predicates, in the sense of Hinzen and Sheehan… read more
2010 Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga (eds.), pp. 113–130 | Chapter
In this paper we argue that for nominalizations the distinction between process nouns, i.e. complex event nominals, and result/object nouns made by, among others, Grimshaw (1990) and Alexiadou (2001), is too strict. We propose instead a dichotomy that is based on agentivity. We claim that both… read more
2001 Clause structure, subject positions and verb movement. About the position of sempre in European
Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999, D’hulst, Yves, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten (eds.), pp. 63–86 | Article