The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America

Mary A. Kato is Professor Emreritus of Linguistics at State University of Campinas.Francisco Ordóñez is Associate Professor in the Linguistic Department at Stony Brook University.

• FOREWORDMary A. Kato and Francisco Ordóñez 1. Microparametric variation in varieties of Spanish and Portuguese null subjectsEugênia Duarte and Humberto Soares da Silva 2. The Null Subject Parameter revisited. The evolution from null subject Spanish and Portuguese to Dominican Spanish and Brazilian PortugueseJosé Camacho 3.On the notion of partial (non-) pro-drop in Romance Andrés Saab 4. Rebel without a Cause: Quantifier in Brazilian Portuguese and SpanishRenato Lacerda 5.Subject and Topic Hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese: A case study on reference sets for economy computationsJairo Nunes 6. V-and-V constructions in Portuguese: The case of ir-and-V Madalena Colaço and Anabela Gonçalves 7. Inflected infinitives and restructuring in Brazilian PortugueseMarcelo Modesto 8. The Null object in Romania NovaSonia Cyrino 9.The external possessor construction in European Portuguese and Brazilian PortugueseMaria Aparecida Torres Morais and Heloisa Maria Lima-Salles 10.Agreement and D.O.M. with se: A comparative study of Mexican and Peninsular SpanishFrancisco Ordóñez and Esthela Treviño 11.Some syntactic and pragmatic aspects of WH-in-situ in Brazilian Portuguese Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva and Elaine Grolla 12.Pseudo-clefts and semi-clefts in Portuguese and Caribbean SpanishMary A. Kato and Carlos Mioto 13. From [o[que]] to [o que] in Brazilian Portuguese free relatives: a diachronic perspectivePaulo Medeiros Junior 14. A study of truncated nominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese: their derivation and their relation to non-verbal form classesAna Paula Scher Subject IndexName Index