Tense domains in BP and EP – vP, CP and phases
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Manuela Ambar
Abstract
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 oppositions involve properties of the tense system and how these properties correlate; (ii) to understand whether the variation observed is or is not co-variation, identifying the properties responsible for it. We will posit that the oppositions described are the effect of the presence versus absence of V raising to the CP field in EP versus BP. Going back to work by Den Besten (1977) and following Ambar (2005, 2007), we will assume that the understanding of this phenomenon is to be seen in properties of Tense, conspiring for the following working hypothesis: BP has no V-to-C because V doesn’t move out of vP, EP has V-to-C because V can move out of vP.
Abstract
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 oppositions involve properties of the tense system and how these properties correlate; (ii) to understand whether the variation observed is or is not co-variation, identifying the properties responsible for it. We will posit that the oppositions described are the effect of the presence versus absence of V raising to the CP field in EP versus BP. Going back to work by Den Besten (1977) and following Ambar (2005, 2007), we will assume that the understanding of this phenomenon is to be seen in properties of Tense, conspiring for the following working hypothesis: BP has no V-to-C because V doesn’t move out of vP, EP has V-to-C because V can move out of vP.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Tense domains in BP and EP – vP, CP and phases 1
- Variable-behavior Ps and the location of PATH in Old French 25
- Hebrew and Arabic children going Romance 51
- Adjectives and deleted nominals in Spanish 67
- On the nature of covert operations 87
- Ellipsis and Restructuring in European Portuguese 109
- The early steps of modal and negation interactions 131
- Structural patterns blocking plural in Romance nominalizations 145
- On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian 161
- Subject doubling in European Portuguese dialects 179
- On the Quebec French interrogative particle tu 201
- Autonomous typological prosodic evolution versus the Germanic superstrate in diachronic French phonology 223
- Dummy prepositions and the licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese 243
- OV sequences in early child Catalan and English 267
- Index 287
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Tense domains in BP and EP – vP, CP and phases 1
- Variable-behavior Ps and the location of PATH in Old French 25
- Hebrew and Arabic children going Romance 51
- Adjectives and deleted nominals in Spanish 67
- On the nature of covert operations 87
- Ellipsis and Restructuring in European Portuguese 109
- The early steps of modal and negation interactions 131
- Structural patterns blocking plural in Romance nominalizations 145
- On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian 161
- Subject doubling in European Portuguese dialects 179
- On the Quebec French interrogative particle tu 201
- Autonomous typological prosodic evolution versus the Germanic superstrate in diachronic French phonology 223
- Dummy prepositions and the licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese 243
- OV sequences in early child Catalan and English 267
- Index 287
