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- Across-the-Board Clitic Placement in Romance LanguagesPublication . Matos, GabrielaStudies on clitics emphasise that Across-the-Board (ATB) clitic placement is licensed only by proclitic pronouns and exhibits a different ehabiour across Romance in what concerns its availability as a regular syntactic construction. Current proposals treat these properties either as the result of the LCA and the special status of clitics as parasitics gaps identifiers in some languages (Kayne 1994), or as the consequence of the projection of a fnctional category above the coordinate structure, where the clitic may remain stranded (Rouveret 1992, Uriagereka 1995). Departing from these analyses, I will laim that ATB clitic placement is not restricted to proclisis and may arise whenever the clitic has scope over the arguments it is related with in each conjunct. I will also argue that the different behaviour of ATB clitic placement in Romance must be entirely imputed to the status of the clitics as autonoous vs. non-autonomous syntatic heads, as well as tothe strategies potentially availabe in each language for evidencing the coordinate stricutire as a unite the overt clitic has scope over.
- Anteposição de constituintes verbais, cópias e elipsePublication . Matos, GabrielaNo Programa Minimalista tem sido sustentada a hipótese de que há uma correlação entre elipse e cópias decorrentes de movimento de constituintes. Ambos os casos resultariam de apagamento de constituintes em Forma Fonética, sob paralelismo1 e identidade (Chomsky & Lasnik 1993). No que diz respeito à elipse, uma entoação low-flat seria a propriedade fonética que distinguiria o constituinte a ser apagado (Chomsky 1995: 125-126). Por sua vez, as cópias por movimento seriam marcadas como sujeitas ao requisito de paralelismo de interpretação antes de Spell-Out e apagadas em Forma Fonética, onde apresentariam uma entoação de cópia (Chomsky 1995: 252- -253).
- Appositive sentences and the structure(s) of coordinationPublication . Matos, GabrielaCoordination is not a unitary phenomenon: as far as binding and scope of external elements are concerned, appositive coordinate sentences may differ from their non-appositive integrated counterparts in the same way as appositive relatives differ from restrictive relaties, suggesting that different configurations are involved in appositive vs. non-appositive sentences. The Set-Merge (Kayne 1994) and Pair Merge (Munn 1992) proposals for dealing with coordination, although relevant, are not enough to distinguish appositive from non-appositive sentences. The crucial distinguishing property of appositives is their parenthetical status: they are adjuntcts affected by a feature specifying their parenthetical nature. This allows the computational system, which operates bottom up and according to an Earlines Condition (Pesetsky 1989, Chomsky 2001), to interpret them as autonomous CP phases, to be transferred to the Interface components before the phases they are inserted in, thus prventing c-command effects from external elements at SEM.
- Comitative Coordination in CapeverdeanPublication . Brito, José António; Matos, Gabriela; Pratas, FernandaComitative coordination in Capevedean, a Portuguese-based Creole language, differs from comitative coordination in Portuguese and other European languages by the wider range of syntactic categories it conjoins and its insensitivity to the lexical-semantic selection of the main verb. In this respect Capeverdean behaves like with-languages. However, the comitative conjunction ku may not coordinate adjectival or tensed verbal predicates, as well as finite sentences. In this paper it is claimed that the widespread occurrence of ku in Capeverdean is due to its full grammaticalized status as a conjunction, and its impossibility to conjoin predicates and tensed domains is imputed to its comitative meaning: ku conjoins referential arguments or properties to derive a group entity or a compound property; it is excluded from contexts that denote related but independent properties or events and situations.
- Comitative Coordination in CapeverdeanPublication . Brito, José António; Matos, Gabriela; Pratas, Fernanda
- Comparative clauses and cross linguistic variation : a syntactic approach.Publication . Matos, Gabriela; Brito, Ana
- Consecutive clauses in European Portuguese: a syntactic approachPublication . Brito, Ana Maria; Matos, GabrielaConsecutive clauses exhibit syntactic properties that in several respects remain relatively unknown. Assuming the current generative framework, we will analyse two main types of consecutives, mainly focussing on European Portuguese.
- Coordination de phrases vs. subordination adverbiale - propositions causales en portugaisPublication . Matos, GabrielaLes études sur les phrases causales en portugais divergent en ce qui concerne la classification d'un sous-ensemble de ces propositions, dites causales explicatives. Elles sont caractérisées soit comme des subordonnées (Silva Dias, 1918; Bechara, 1999; Moura-Neves, 1999; Matos, 2003), soit comme des coordonnées (Cunha & Cintra, 1984; Said Ali, 1931; Lobo 2001, 2003). Quoique les frontières entre propositions subordonnées et coordonnées ne soient pas toujours nettes (e.g., Culicover & Jackendoff, 1997; 1999; Rebuschi, 2002), il y a des critères morphosyntaxiques qui permettent de les distinguer. Appliqués cumulativement, ces critères semblent indiquer que les causales explicatives en portugais constituent un cas particulier des adverbiales subordonnées. Le fait que l'on puisse faire appel à des propriétés morphosyntaxiques pour discerner les phrases coordonnées des subordonnées adverbiales suggère que ces propositions présentent des structures syntaxiques partiellement distinctes. Pourtant, au sein de la Théorie de Principes et Paramètres il y a des approches qui attribuent à la coordination une configuration syntaxique identique à celle classiquement proposée pour la subordination adverbiale. Cette étude a un double propos : présenter une classification adéquate pour les propositions causales en portugais et déterminer dans le cadre du Programme Minimaliste les propriétés structurales distinctives de la coordination de phrases face à la subordination adverbiale dans des langues comme le portugais1.
- Ênclise e próclise na coordenaçãoPublication . Matos, Gabriela; Colaço, MadalenaEm Português europeu, o padrão neutro de colocação de clíticos em frases finitas é a ênclise, ocorrendo a próclise sob escopo local de itens específicos, nomeadamente CPs realizados ou itens com conteúdo negativo, quantificacional ou de foco. Neste estudo, proporemos uma análise da próclise em estruturas de coordenação oracional, um tópico que apenas recentemente recebeu alguma atenção (Martins 2013, Matos & Colaço 2013). Proporemos que a próclise na coordenação pode ser induzida ou pelos traços de algumas conjunções simples ou correlativas, ou pelo valor discursivo de algumas estruturas de coordenação correlativa. A próclise na coordenação pode também ocorrer com uma conjunção coordenativa não proclisadora, se esta estiver sob o escopo de um proclisador. Este facto sugere a existência de contextos de próclise a longa distância em Português europeu. No entanto, mostraremos que esses casos podem integrar-se no fenómeno de próclise local, tendo em conta as propriedades de Conj enquanto categoria subespecificada que, por Agree, partilha a natureza categorial do seu especificador. A opcionalidade da próclise em contextos de longa distância pode também ser explicada. Na verdade, esta opcionalidade é apenas aparente, sendo um efeito do nível oracional envolvido na coordenação.
- Especificidades de nem coordenativo em português europeuPublication . Canceiro, Nádia; Matos, Gabriela; Colaço, MadalenaEuropean Portuguese nem corresponds to two different categories, a coordenative conjunction and a negative non-conjunctional element that in some contexts assumes a scalar meaning. We will show that, although both of these homonymous particles necessarily occur in negative domains, they have a different syntactic distribution and display specific properties. Focusing on coordenative nem in correlative and the non-correlative constructions, we will propose an account of their licensing conditions in integrated and parenthetical coordinate structures.
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