"This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the topic. The articles are organized in two sections, each one followed by a comment paper: the first section, more theoretical in its nature, gathers contributions analyzing major syntactic aspects of complementation in Portuguese, from a synchronic and a diachronic point of view; the second section includes articles on L1 and L2 acquisition of Portuguese complementation. Both sections especially focus on infinitival structures; mood selection and the interpretation of subjects in finite complement clauses are also topics of particular relevance. The volume is meant for researchers and students interested in formal syntax and acquisition in general and Portuguese syntax and acquisition in particular"--.

• Complement Clauses in Portuguese
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Complement clauses in Portuguese
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Control of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The distribution of inflection in control contexts
  • 3. But is this really obligatory control?
  • 4. Challenges for existing theories of control
  • 5. Towards an analysis
    • 5.1 The proposal
    • 5.2 Covert comitatives
    • 5.3 Obviation
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Inflected infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and the theory of Control
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. BP inflection and pro-drop
  • 3. Rodrigues and Horstein (2013)
    • 3.1 The experiment
    • 3.2 Partial Control structures
      • 3.2.1 The complex DP analysis
      • 3.2.2 Inflected infinitives are controlled, null finite subjects are not
    • 3.3 BP has nonfinite inflected clauses
    • 3.4 Epicene agreement and null finite subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 4. The distribution of inflected infinitives in BP
  • 5. Making sense of the data
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Controlled overt pronouns as specificational predicates
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The data
    • 2.1 Obligatory control complements
    • 2.2 Raising complements
    • 2.3 Discussion
  • 3. Multiple subjects and emphatic pronouns
    • 3.1 Evidence that emphatic pronouns are subjects
    • 3.2 Multiple subjects in raising and control complements
  • 4. Cross-linguistic differences
  • 5. Some background assumptions regarding the syntax of the consistent NSLs
  • 6. Two possible alternative accounts of controlled pronouns
    • 6.1 Alternative 1: Controlled pronouns as pronounced PR
    • 6.2 Alternative 2: The controlled pronoun is a doubling DP within a Big-DP
  • 7. The proposal
    • 7.1 Hungarian structural focus as predication
    • 7.2 Postverbal subjects in the Romance NSLs
  • 8. Infinitival complements revisited
    • 8.1 Raising complements
    • 8.2 Control complements
  • 9. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Subjunctive and subject obviation in Portuguese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Obviation and tense dependency
  • 3. Obviation and the quasi-imperative operator – Kempchinsky’s proposal
  • 4. Subjunctive and non veridicality
  • 5. Subjunctive, agentivity and obviation
    • 5.1 Predicates of volition
    • 5.2 Directive and causative predicates
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• The acquisition of control in European Portuguese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. On the nature of control: Accounting for EP data
  • 3. Previous studies on the acquisition of control and complementation
  • 4. Research questions
  • 5. The experimental task
  • 6. Results
  • 7. Discussion
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• The acquisition of infinitival complements to causative verbs in Mozambican Portuguese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Complements to causative verbs in Portuguese
  • 3. Acquisition of Portuguese causative verbs: Facts and questions
    • 3.1 Previous work on European Portuguese
    • 3.2 Causative verbs in (the acquisition of) Mozambican Portuguese: Research questions
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. Results
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• How Portuguese children interpret subject pronouns in complement clauses
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Interpreting subject pronouns in finite complement clauses in EP
  • 3. Cross-linguistic research in the acquisition of pronominal subjects in complement clauses: Some interpretative patterns
  • 4. Hypotheses and predictions
  • 5. Experiment
    • 5.1 Methodology
    • 5.2 Participants
    • 5.3 Test A1
    • 5.4 Test A2
    • 5.5 Test B
  • 6. Discussion
    • 6.1 The status of subject pronouns in the indicative
    • 6.2 Position of the matrix indirect object antecedent preceding the null subject pronoun
    • 6.3 Lexical-semantic properties of the matrix verbs selecting the subjunctive
    • 6.4 Specificities of the subjunctive obviation
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
• Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese
  • 1. Universal biases: SASH and the CFC in European and Mozambican Portuguese
  • 2. What about frequency?
  • 3. SASH and a verb-centric parser
  • 4. Control in EP: Intervention vs. SASH
  • 5. The CFC hypothesis and raising
  • 6. Inflected infinitives in L2 acquisition
  • 7. Obviation effects in subjunctive complements
  • 8. The Interface Hypothesis: Evidence from Portuguese?
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Index