Adriana Cardoso

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in Portuguese and other languages. It offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese and an overview of competing theoretical analyses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198723783
• ISBN-10: 0198723784
• Artikelnr.: 47867688

Autorenporträt

Adriana Cardoso is Assistant Professor at the Higher Education College of Lisbon and Researcher at the Linguistics Centre of the University of Lisbon. Her main research interests are historical linguistics, comparative syntax, and educational linguistics. She was recently involved in the WOChWEL project (Word Order and Word Order Change in Western European Languages), and is the co-editor, with Ana Maria Martins, of the forthcoming OUP volume Word Order Change.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Remnant-internal relativization
3: Extraposition of restrictive relative clauses
4: Appositive relativization
5: Conclusion
References
Index