Generative syntax of Brazilian Portuguese at the dawn of the 21st Century: minimalism and interfaces

• Grant number: 06/00965-2
• Support type: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Duration: September 01, 2006 - February 28, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Jairo Morais Nunes
• Grantee: Jairo Morais Nunes
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Co-Principal Investigators: Mary Aizawa Kato ; Raquel Santana Santos
• Assoc. researchers: Adriana Stella Cardoso Lessa de Oliveira ; Ana Claudia Pinto Bastos ; Ana Paula Scher ; Cristina Saenger Ximenes ; Irenilza Oliveira e Oliveira ; Juanito Ornelas de Avelar ; Marcelo Barra Ferreira ; Marina Rosa Ana Augusto
• Associated grant(s): 10/50863-7 - Francisco Ordóñez | State University New York - Estados Unidos, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 09/03158-9 - The licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese subjunctive clauses: contributions to the movement theory of control, BP.MS; 08/00244-9 - Gender and number agreement in passives, nominal predicates and DPs in Brazilian Portuguese, BP.DR; 08/00073-0 - Derivation of post-XP negative structures in Brazilian Portuguese: sentential negation and smaller constituents negation, BP.DR; 08/02524-9 - Finite control in subjunctive clauses in Brazilian Portuguese?, BP.IC

Abstract

Adopting the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005a, 2005b), the goal of this project is to investigate the mapping between the syntactic component, on the one hand, and the morphological, phonological and semantic components, on the other, based on the syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese. (AU)