VOS sentences in European Portuguese: p-movement and intonational structure

This paper aims to analyze the syntactic and intonational structures associated with VOS sentences (sentences in verb-object-subject order) in European Portuguese (henceforth EP), with the hypothesis that prosody (reflected in intonational structure) can encode the syntactic structure associated wit...

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Main Author: Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-02-01
Series:Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/flp/article/view/88410