A mudança na posição estrutural de foco no português brasileiro

• Main Author: Mary Kato
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2017-09-01
• Series: Revista Linguística
• Online Access: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/13507

<p class="Default">This chapter reviews the previous analyses by Kato and Kato &amp; collaborators with respect to the <em>Focus </em>position in Brazilian Portuguese, trying to show that before the 18th century Portuguese made use of the high <em>Focus </em>projection, in the sentence periphery, and that the great and only structural change with regard to <em>Focus </em>and wh-constituents has to do with the deactivation of this position and the activation of the low FocusP projection in the periphery of vP. More recent changes are shown to result from PF processes. An alternative to the cartographic perspective was considered, with a single CP, without expansion and without the low <em>FocusP </em>projection, but the cartographic perspective seems to be more effective with regard to the Focus phenomenon in Brazilian Portuguese.</p><p class="Default"> </p><p>---</p><p>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a13507" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a13507</a></p>