Remarks on Finite Control and Hyper-Raising in Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

In this reply I examine Modesto’s ( 2011) claim that null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are not controlled and are not derived by movement. I show that the critique has a considerable number of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and misrepresentations that prevent a proper evaluation of movement approaches to null subjects in BP. When the relevant points are rectified, we see that the technical problems raised are nonexistent and the empirical coverage of the movement approach is even more comprehensive than initially thought.

Contributors

Jairo Nunes:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6853-2474

Journal

Journal ID (issn): 2397-5563

Title: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

Publisher: Ubiquity Press

ISSN (Electronic): 2397-5563

Publication date (Electronic): 09 May 2019

Publication date Collection: 2019

Volume: 18

Affiliations

[1 ]Departamento de Linguística – FFLCH, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Luciano Gualberto, São Paulo, BR

Article

DOI: 10.5334/jpl.196

Copyright statement: Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s)

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Categories

Subject: Research paper