Jairo Nunes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jairo Nunes plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2213-3887
Titles
Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Edited by Jairo Nunes
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Copy Theory of Movement
Edited by Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 107] 2007. vi, 388 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Chapter 9. Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Luisa Meroni (eds.), pp. 171–190 | Chapter
This paper rethinks Holmberg’s (2005) characterization of partial vs. consistent null subject languages (NSL) based on data from Brazilian and European Portuguese, the former a partial, the latter a consistent NSL. The paper proposes that rather than overt morphological distinctions, what is… read more
2017 Chapter 11. Circumventing ɸ-minimality: On some unorthodox cases of A-movement in Brazilian Portuguese Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil, Lopes, Ruth E.V., Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino (eds.), pp. 159–184 | Chapter
In this paper I argue that locative agreement and possessor raising in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) should be subsumed under Nunes’s (2008) analysis of hyper-raising in BP. More specifically, I propose that these unorthodox instances of A-movement in BP do not violate minimality, for the crossed… read more
2014 Adjunct Control and edge features Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks (eds.), pp. 79–108 | Article
This paper examines a surprising correlation between adjunct control and wh-movement in Portuguese: object control into an adjunct clause may be allowed in addition to subject control if the matrix object undergoes wh-movement. Assuming Hornstein’s (2001) account of adjunct control within the… read more
2011 On the diachronic reanalysis of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese: Triggers and consequences The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change, Rinke, Esther and Tanja Kupisch (eds.), pp. 331–354 | Article
This paper discusses some acquisition issues involved in the syntactic changes that affected the distribution and interpretation of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Based on work by Ferreira (2000) and Nunes (2008a), I argue that the emergence of finite control in BP was… read more
2009 Chapter 3. Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 51–68 | Article
In this paper we examine null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese, which display an anaphoric behavior in some contexts but a pronominal behavior in others. We show that in absence of islands separating a null possessor from its antecedent, null possessors display properties of… read more
2009 Chapter 5. A Uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 93–120 | Article
Based on Kayne’s (1994) analysis of relative clauses, this paper proposes a uniform account of the three types of relative clauses found in Brazilian Portuguese: the standard version (with pied-piping), the resumptive version with an overt pronoun, and the PP-chopping version, where the relativized… read more
2009 Dummy prepositions and the licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007, Aboh, Enoch O., Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 243–266 | Article
This paper discusses constructions in Brazilian Portuguese in which a null subject is adequately licensed only if the clause containing it is preceded by the dummy preposition de. Assuming that referential null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese are traces of A-movement (see Ferreira 2000, 2004 and… read more
2009 Chapter 1. Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 3–14 | Article
2009 Chapter 9. Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 191–214 | Article
In this paper we discuss data from Brazilian Portuguese which arguably involve one instance of a preposition in the syntactic component but end up surfacing with two instances, yielding what at first sight looks like PP coordination. We argue that the copying of the preposition takes place in the… read more
2009 Chapter 10. Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 215–236 | Article
In this paper we investigate grammatical cases of verbal and nominal ellipsis in which there is no full morphological identity between the antecedent and the elided constituent. We argue that lack of identity in these cases can be captured if inflectional material is hosted by functional categories… read more
2009 Chapter 6. Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 121–136 | Article
In this paper we discuss several constructions with null objects in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), based on Santos’s (2002, 2003) arguments that stress shift in BP is blocked by pro, but not by traces. In particular, we show that stress shift provides evidence for an analysis of PP-chopping relatives… read more
2008 Copy-reflexive and copy-control constructions: A movement analysis Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2008, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 61–100 | Article
This paper discusses reflexive and control constructions in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec (Lee 2003) and Hmong (Mortensen 2003), where instead of a reflexive in the former and a null category in the latter, one may find a copy of the antecedent. The paper argues that these constructions provide… read more
2007 The copy theory of movement: A view from PF The Copy Theory of Movement, Corver, Norbert and Jairo Nunes (eds.), pp. 13–74 | Chapter
Based on previous work by Bošković (2001, 2002, 2004a,b) and Nunes (1999, 2004), this chapter discusses a considerable amount of evidence involving A-movement, A'-movement, head movement, and remnant movement that points to the conclusion that “traces” (i.e. copies structurally lower in the… read more
2007 From trace theory to copy theory The Copy Theory of Movement, Corver, Norbert and Jairo Nunes (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Miscellaneous
1995 The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 357 ff. | Article