Chapter 9 Deriving OSV order in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface Terraced layers of structure-building ix
4. Section 1 Features
5. Chapter 1 Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French 2
6. Chapter 2 De-gendering the plural markers of Modern Hebrew 20
7. Chapter 3 Conjunction agreement as semantic agreement 34
8. Chapter 4 The French suffix –el /–al 56
9. Section 2 Empty elements
10. Chapter 5 Empty categories as Copy and No Transfer 80
11. Chapter 6 Nǎlǐ nàlǐ — ça, c’est quoi? 101
12. Chapter 7 Licensing parasitic gaps without movement 118
13. Section 3 Subjects
14. Chapter 8 Styling the characters, setting the scene 138
15. Chapter 9 Deriving OSV order in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil 159
16. Chapter 10 Subjects and situations in copular sentences 185
17. Chapter 11 Sentential anaphors in French: An insight in the syntax of subject clauses 200
18. Chapter 12 Null subjects in Greek 224
19. Section 4 Extended DP layer
20. Chapter 13 The DP-internal origin of datives 252
21. Chapter 14 The cartography of quantity nouns in Italian 279
22. Chapter 15 Dims a dozen 303
23. Chapter 16 Arabic comparatives, gradation, and variation 334
24. Section 5 Clefts, Focus, and Predication
25. Chapter 17 What’s in a copula? 356
26. Chapter 18 Specificational vs. predicational wh-clefted questions in Arabic. Evidence for two (strong/weak) PRONs 381
27. Chapter 19 Insights into post-verbal argument reordering in Hebrew and Italian 403
28. Chapter 20 Existentials 416
29. Chapter 21 The focalizing ser construction in Brazilian Portuguese 438
30. Chapter 22 Anwa lbaṛ g ara nemlil? 461
31. Section 6 CP Layer and wh-
32. Chapter 23 ‘Frankly’, and the syntacticization of speech acts 478
33. Chapter 24 On ‘why’ in Brazilian Portuguese 495
34. Chapter 25 Cartography, movement and reordering of arguments 511
35. Chapter 26 Long wh questions in French 532
36. Chapter 27 Some notes on the modal existential wh construction in two Romance languages 552
37. Index 575