Juanito Ornelas de Avelar

List of John Benjamins publications for which Juanito Ornelas de Avelar plays a role.

Titles

The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil

Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar

Subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Ornelas de Avelar, Juanito and Laura Álvarez López 2018 Chapter 8. Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of PortugueseThe Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 185–210 | Chapter
In this chapter, we will focus on two set of changes reported in the literature on African and Brazilian varieties of Portuguese: (i) new uses of prepositions in directional complements of motion verbs and (ii) the emergence of ter (‘to have’) as a prototypically existential verb. Some facts… read more
Álvarez López, Laura and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar 2018 IntroductionThe Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
This chapter introduces the idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil. It further identifies the common research questions, presenting earlier studies and discussing current gaps in research about Brazilian and African varieties of Portuguese. A detailed overview of the book explains… read more
This paper shows that some properties of possessive and existential sentences in Brazilian Portuguese can be properly explained if the possessive-existential verb ter ‘have’ is derived by the combination of the features associated with estar ‘be’ and the features corresponding to the comitative… read more
This paper characterizes the occurrence of the pronoun você ‘you’ in Brazilian Portuguese existential clauses as an instance of an indeterminate pronoun, arguing against the idea that it corresponds to an expletive. I present some evidence that você is not directly merged in [Spec,TP], but in a… read more