Rui Marques

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rui Marques plays a role.

Flores, Cristina, Ana Lúcia Santos, Laetitia de Almeida, Alice Jesus and Rui Marques 2019 Chapter 2. Portuguese as a heritage language in contact with German and French: A comparative study on the acquisition of verbal moodRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Chapter
This study focuses on the acquisition of verbal mood in complement clauses by two groups of heritage speakers of European Portuguese (EP) (7–16 years old) with similar sociolinguistic profiles and two different dominant languages, German and French. The production of finite complement clauses was… read more
Marques, Rui 2018 Subjunctive and subject obviation in PortugueseComplement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition, Santos, Ana Lúcia and Anabela Gonçalves (eds.), pp. 213–240 | Chapter
Subject obviation refers to the impossibility of the subject of an embedded clause to be co-referent with the main clause’s subject. This is verified in complementation structures of some predicates that select the subjunctive, but not in those of other predicates. A semantic explanation is… read more
Marques, Rui, Purificação Silvano, Anabela Gonçalves and Ana Lúcia Santos 2015 Sequence of tenses in complementation structures: Lexical restrictions and effects on language acquisitionHispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article
In this paper we discuss the combinations of tenses in main and complement clauses of European Portuguese, focusing on the issue that restrictions on the tenses allowed in complement clauses are observed with some predicates but not with others. We show that these lexical restrictions are… read more
Marques, Rui 2009 On the selection of mood in complement clausesCross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 179–204 | Article
In this paper, the selection of indicative or subjunctive for complement clauses in Romance languages is considered, the proposal being made that the selection of one or another mood is related to the kind of attitude expressed by the main predicate. Specifically, indicative is selected when the… read more
Marques, Rui 2003 Semantic and pragmatic constraints on mood selectionMeaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 129–146 | Article