Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1. Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses 3
5. Part I. Movement and empty category issues
6. Chapter 2. Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese 17
7. Chapter 3. Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese 51
8. Chapter 4. Patterns of extraction out of factive Islands in Brazilian Portuguese 69
9. Chapter 5. A Uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese 93
10. Chapter 6. Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese 121
11. Part II. Issues on the syntax-morphology interface
12. Chapter 7. The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese 139
13. Chapter 8. Topicalization of verbal projections in Brazilian Portuguese 161
14. Chapter 9. Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese 191
15. Chapter 10. Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese 215
16. Author index 237
17. Language index 239
18. Subject index 241