Esmeralda Vailati Negrão
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esmeralda Vailati Negrão plays a role.
2018 Chapter 9. The Africa-Brazil continuum: The case of passives and impersonal constructions The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 211–236 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the hypothesis that some impersonal constructions of Brazilian Portuguese and a type of passive of Angolan Portuguese are the outcome of the contact between Classical Portuguese and Bantu languages. This can be taken as possible evidence for the Africa-Brazil linguistic… read more
2009 Tense domains in BP and EP – vP, CP and phases Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007, Aboh, Enoch O., Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
In this article we will deal with intriguing oppositions in Brazilian and European Portuguese in structures involving Aux-to-Comp, Complementizer Deletion and verbal complex gerunds versus adjunct gerunds licensing. The objectives of this paper are twofold: (i) to investigate to what extent those… read more
2004 Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP. Evidence from a Comparative Study on Sempre Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
1997 Asymmetries in the distribution of overt pronouns and empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese Clitics, Pronouns and Movement, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 217–236 | Article