Studies on Variation in Portuguese
Edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 14] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
Pilar Barbosa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pilar Barbosa plays a role.
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Subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2021 Alleged obligatorily controlled inflected infinitives Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, Mucha, Anne, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński (eds.), pp. 35–82 | Chapter
This paper examines the arguments presented in Modesto (2009, 2018) and Sheehan (2013, 2018) in favor of the idea that inflected infinitival complements of desideratives, commissives, and object control verbs such as persuadir ‘persuade’ in Portuguese can be obligatorily controlled. It argues… read more
2018 Controlled overt pronouns as specificational predicates Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition, Santos, Ana Lúcia and Anabela Gonçalves (eds.), pp. 129–186 | Chapter
Szabolcsi (2009) shows that there are languages where control and raising infinitives have overt subjects, in compliance with (1): (1) a. The overt subjects of control complements can only be pronouns. b. The overt subjects of raising complements can be pronouns or lexical DPs. … read more
2017 Chapter 6. Variable use of strong preterites: A sociolinguistic and theoretical approach Studies on Variation in Portuguese, Barbosa, Pilar, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Chapter
This paper examines a particular case of variable syncretism in the Minho region in Portugal, involving the 1st person singular (1sg) and 3rd person singular (3sg) forms of “strong” preterits of the verbs estar ‘be-stative’, ter ‘have’, fazer ‘do’ and ser /ir ‘be’/‘go’. These forms can be levelled,… read more
2017 The study of variation in Portuguese: Overview and outlook Studies on Variation in Portuguese, Barbosa, Pilar, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 8. Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon Studies on Variation in Portuguese, Barbosa, Pilar, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Chapter
In European Portuguese, clitic pronouns can be attached to the highest verb in certain verbal clusters, a process known as clitic climbing (CC). According to some authors (Magro, 2005), CC is more productive in the Northern varieties of European Portuguese. In this chapter, we present and discuss… read more