Sonia Cyrino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1693259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Cyrino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cyrino |
| SIGNATURE | CYRINO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1333-3851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Experiencers at the syntax-pragmatics interface. The case of the jo ‘I’ – construction in Catalan
This paper aims to support the thesis that Speech Act related operators have landing sites in syntax, specifically at the syntax-pragmatics interface. In order to attain this goal, it presents the first formal analysis of a construction, dubbed the jo ‘I’ – construction, that shows an overt first person strong pronoun sitting in sentence-initial position of declarative sentences both in pro-drop and partial pro-drop languages of the Romance famil…
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account
To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky…
The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives
This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell‐Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for indefiniteness. De in Romance partitives is the overt Spell‐Out of a relator head that takes a definite DP as compleme…
A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance
In this paper we present an original approach to analyze the compositionality of indefinite expressions in Romance by investigating the relevance of their syntactic distribution in relation to their meaning. This approach has the advantage of allowing us to explore the question of how syntactic structure can determine the meaning of different forms of indefiniteness. To that end, we postulate a common derivation for bare plurals, bare mass and de…
Differential Object Marking in diachrony: The case of Brazilian Portuguese
It is usually assumed that animate direct objects are generally not marked in Brazilian Portuguese.Several diachronic studies have nevertheless concluded that a-marking on direct objects, which is homophonous to the dative (just like Differential Object Marking in other Romance varieties), was possible from the 16 th to 18 th centuries and then it was lost.Based on synchronic Brazilian Portuguese data we observe that, in fact, the decay is not co…
Animacidade na sintaxe: Uma Abordagem Formal
Uma observação recorrente no estudo da realização do objeto direto em algumas línguas românicas reside no fato de que traços de animacidade parecem determinar a forma que o objeto toma. Neste trabalho, investigo fenômenos que envolvem o traço animacidade e que foram observados separadamente na literatura sobre as línguas românicas: Marcação Diferencial do Objeto, leísmo e a Restrição Caso-Pessoa. O objetivo foi analisar esses fenômenos em compara…
Objeto nulo e pronome pleno na retomada anafórica em PB: Uma Análise Em Corpora Escritos Com Características De Fala
Neste trabalho, apresentaremos os resultados de nossa investigação sobre o fenômeno da retomada anafórica de objeto direto em PB analisando dois corpora escritos que apresentam características de oralidade e tentam se aproximar da fala: um corpus constituído de histórias em quadrinhos infantis e outro contendo postagens do Twitter. Investigamos esses corpora com dois objetivos: o primeiro é comparar duas hipóteses sobre a distribuição entre objet…
Construções Com Se E Promoção De Argumento No Português Brasileiro: Uma Investigação Diacrônica
Este trabalho investiga diacronicamente construções relacionadas no português brasileiro:passivas sintéticas, construções com o se impessoal e com se médio. A hipótese é que a mudança em relação a essas estruturas pode estar na origem das atuais construções de promoção de argumento com certos verbos
Null objects are ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is known to license anaphoric null objects (ANO), that is, null objects with a linguistic antecedent. It also licenses VP ellipsis (VPE), with auxiliaries, modals and main verbs, the latter a case of V-stranding VPE (V-VPE), the one with which we will be concerned. Although ANOs and V-VPE may have identical surface strings in BP, we propose that they do not have the same structure. We argue that ANOs in BP are cases of D…
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: More on the DP/NP analysis
Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change
Leading scholars examine languages ranging from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans. They consider the insights parametric theory offers to understanding the dynamics of language change and test new hypotheses against an extensive array of data.
A estrutura do DP no crioulo de Cabo Verde e no PB de afro-descendentes
O texto apresenta uma descrição da realização de DPs em dois corpora de afro-descendentes brasileiros e compara os dados com os dos crioulos do Cabo Verde, como descrito por Alexandre & Soares (2004) e Baptista (2007). Aponta para questões sobre a estrutura dos DPs, levando em conta a variação na ocorrência de DPs nus nessas variantes do português e sobre a realização do traço [+plural] nos DPs. Considera-se que as realizações superficiais entre …
On romance syntactic complex predicates: Why Brazilian Portuguese is different
I analyze clitic climbing as the effect of Romance syntactic complex predicate formation: the non-finite verb phrase moves to the specifier of the upper V. This movement forms a complex predicate so as to allow for a configuration where clitics can climb. Crucial for this movement is the presence of a defective C-T. The lack of clitic climbing in Brazilian Portuguese is but one consequence of a non-defective C-T system in these structures. As a c…
On the Existence of Null Complement Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese
A Anáfora do Complemento Nulo (ACN) ocorre em algumas línguas como o espanhol, italiano e inglês (Depiante, 2000; Brucart, 1999), e foi primeiramente estudada por Hankamer e Sag ( 1976). Certos verbos selecionam a ACN e o conteúdo do complemento nulo está expresso ou em um antecedente lingüístico ou no contexto pragmático. Depiante (2000) propõe que a ACN é uma "anáfora profunda", mais especificamente uma proforma nula semelhante ao "it" do inglê…
O objeto direto nulo no Português Brasileiro
In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), much has been said about the null direct object. The occurrence of the null indirect object, however, has not been studied – but the high incidence of these elements in BP was raised in Dillinger et al. (1996). In this study, the authors also raise the question of the syntactic status of "complement" of the indirect object, following Dillinger (1991) and Perini (1989), who "highlight the difficulty of distinguishing …
Alternância de códigos na fala de uma criança bilíngüe em português e espanhol
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: More on the DP/NP analysis
A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance
In this paper we present an original approach to analyze the compositionality of indefinite expressions in Romance by investigating the relevance of their syntactic distribution in relation to their meaning. This approach has the advantage of allowing us to explore the question of how syntactic structure can determine the meaning of different forms of indefiniteness. To that end, we postulate a common derivation for bare plurals, bare mass and de…
Differential Object Marking in diachrony: The case of Brazilian Portuguese
It is usually assumed that animate direct objects are generally not marked in Brazilian Portuguese.Several diachronic studies have nevertheless concluded that a-marking on direct objects, which is homophonous to the dative (just like Differential Object Marking in other Romance varieties), was possible from the 16 th to 18 th centuries and then it was lost.Based on synchronic Brazilian Portuguese data we observe that, in fact, the decay is not co…
O objeto direto nulo no Português Brasileiro
In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), much has been said about the null direct object. The occurrence of the null indirect object, however, has not been studied – but the high incidence of these elements in BP was raised in Dillinger et al. (1996). In this study, the authors also raise the question of the syntactic status of "complement" of the indirect object, following Dillinger (1991) and Perini (1989), who "highlight the difficulty of distinguishing …
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account
To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky…
Animacidade na sintaxe: Uma Abordagem Formal
Uma observação recorrente no estudo da realização do objeto direto em algumas línguas românicas reside no fato de que traços de animacidade parecem determinar a forma que o objeto toma. Neste trabalho, investigo fenômenos que envolvem o traço animacidade e que foram observados separadamente na literatura sobre as línguas românicas: Marcação Diferencial do Objeto, leísmo e a Restrição Caso-Pessoa. O objetivo foi analisar esses fenômenos em compara…
Alternância de códigos na fala de uma criança bilíngüe em português e espanhol
O objeto direto nulo no Português Brasileiro
In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), much has been said about the null direct object. The occurrence of the null indirect object, however, has not been studied – but the high incidence of these elements in BP was raised in Dillinger et al. (1996). In this study, the authors also raise the question of the syntactic status of "complement" of the indirect object, following Dillinger (1991) and Perini (1989), who "highlight the difficulty of distinguishing …
On the Existence of Null Complement Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese
A Anáfora do Complemento Nulo (ACN) ocorre em algumas línguas como o espanhol, italiano e inglês (Depiante, 2000; Brucart, 1999), e foi primeiramente estudada por Hankamer e Sag ( 1976). Certos verbos selecionam a ACN e o conteúdo do complemento nulo está expresso ou em um antecedente lingüístico ou no contexto pragmático. Depiante (2000) propõe que a ACN é uma "anáfora profunda", mais especificamente uma proforma nula semelhante ao "it" do inglê…
On romance syntactic complex predicates: Why Brazilian Portuguese is different
I analyze clitic climbing as the effect of Romance syntactic complex predicate formation: the non-finite verb phrase moves to the specifier of the upper V. This movement forms a complex predicate so as to allow for a configuration where clitics can climb. Crucial for this movement is the presence of a defective C-T. The lack of clitic climbing in Brazilian Portuguese is but one consequence of a non-defective C-T system in these structures. As a c…
A estrutura do DP no crioulo de Cabo Verde e no PB de afro-descendentes
O texto apresenta uma descrição da realização de DPs em dois corpora de afro-descendentes brasileiros e compara os dados com os dos crioulos do Cabo Verde, como descrito por Alexandre & Soares (2004) e Baptista (2007). Aponta para questões sobre a estrutura dos DPs, levando em conta a variação na ocorrência de DPs nus nessas variantes do português e sobre a realização do traço [+plural] nos DPs. Considera-se que as realizações superficiais entre …
Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change
Leading scholars examine languages ranging from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans. They consider the insights parametric theory offers to understanding the dynamics of language change and test new hypotheses against an extensive array of data.
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: More on the DP/NP analysis
Null objects are ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is known to license anaphoric null objects (ANO), that is, null objects with a linguistic antecedent. It also licenses VP ellipsis (VPE), with auxiliaries, modals and main verbs, the latter a case of V-stranding VPE (V-VPE), the one with which we will be concerned. Although ANOs and V-VPE may have identical surface strings in BP, we propose that they do not have the same structure. We argue that ANOs in BP are cases of D…
Construções Com Se E Promoção De Argumento No Português Brasileiro: Uma Investigação Diacrônica
Este trabalho investiga diacronicamente construções relacionadas no português brasileiro:passivas sintéticas, construções com o se impessoal e com se médio. A hipótese é que a mudança em relação a essas estruturas pode estar na origem das atuais construções de promoção de argumento com certos verbos
Animacidade na sintaxe: Uma Abordagem Formal
Uma observação recorrente no estudo da realização do objeto direto em algumas línguas românicas reside no fato de que traços de animacidade parecem determinar a forma que o objeto toma. Neste trabalho, investigo fenômenos que envolvem o traço animacidade e que foram observados separadamente na literatura sobre as línguas românicas: Marcação Diferencial do Objeto, leísmo e a Restrição Caso-Pessoa. O objetivo foi analisar esses fenômenos em compara…
Objeto nulo e pronome pleno na retomada anafórica em PB: Uma Análise Em Corpora Escritos Com Características De Fala
Neste trabalho, apresentaremos os resultados de nossa investigação sobre o fenômeno da retomada anafórica de objeto direto em PB analisando dois corpora escritos que apresentam características de oralidade e tentam se aproximar da fala: um corpus constituído de histórias em quadrinhos infantis e outro contendo postagens do Twitter. Investigamos esses corpora com dois objetivos: o primeiro é comparar duas hipóteses sobre a distribuição entre objet…
Differential Object Marking in diachrony: The case of Brazilian Portuguese
It is usually assumed that animate direct objects are generally not marked in Brazilian Portuguese.Several diachronic studies have nevertheless concluded that a-marking on direct objects, which is homophonous to the dative (just like Differential Object Marking in other Romance varieties), was possible from the 16 th to 18 th centuries and then it was lost.Based on synchronic Brazilian Portuguese data we observe that, in fact, the decay is not co…
A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance
In this paper we present an original approach to analyze the compositionality of indefinite expressions in Romance by investigating the relevance of their syntactic distribution in relation to their meaning. This approach has the advantage of allowing us to explore the question of how syntactic structure can determine the meaning of different forms of indefiniteness. To that end, we postulate a common derivation for bare plurals, bare mass and de…
The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives
This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell‐Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for indefiniteness. De in Romance partitives is the overt Spell‐Out of a relator head that takes a definite DP as compleme…
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account
To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky…
Experiencers at the syntax-pragmatics interface. The case of the jo ‘I’ – construction in Catalan
This paper aims to support the thesis that Speech Act related operators have landing sites in syntax, specifically at the syntax-pragmatics interface. In order to attain this goal, it presents the first formal analysis of a construction, dubbed the jo ‘I’ – construction, that shows an overt first person strong pronoun sitting in sentence-initial position of declarative sentences both in pro-drop and partial pro-drop languages of the Romance famil…
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