Manuela Ambar
Biographic Data
| ID | 9248300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Ambar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Ambar |
| SIGNATURE | AMBAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Inflected Infinitives in Romance
In this chapter we explore the properties of inflected infinitives in Portuguese and establish a parallelism with Spanish and Italian infinitives, which are not overtly inflected. The different behaviors concerning complementation, both in finites and in infinitives, are suggested to be derived from the presence of a tense feature in the complementizer. We discuss different classes of verbs (epistemic–declarative, volitive, and factive) that sele…
On Finiteness and the Left Periphery
On Some Special Adverbs, Word Order, and CP
For some adverbs, European and Brazilian Portuguese sharply differ, with consequences for the syntax of tense, quantification, word order, quantifier floating, wh-extraction, and clause structure. Evidence is provided for the architecture of the left, for remnant IP movement, and for the claim that “micro-” lexical differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese reduce to syntactic “macro-” variation: absence vs. presence of V-movement
Inflected Infinitives Revisited
This article argues for a minimalist approach to the variation between Romance languages with respect to the generic interpretation associated with infinitival complements of epistemic verbs. It is proposed that epistemic verbs have inherent temporal features and that they assign a tense feature to their complement. These features are checked under a Spec-head relation through two temporal projections, related either to the object position or the…
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Inflected Infinitives Revisited
This article argues for a minimalist approach to the variation between Romance languages with respect to the generic interpretation associated with infinitival complements of epistemic verbs. It is proposed that epistemic verbs have inherent temporal features and that they assign a tense feature to their complement. These features are checked under a Spec-head relation through two temporal projections, related either to the object position or the…
On Some Special Adverbs, Word Order, and CP
For some adverbs, European and Brazilian Portuguese sharply differ, with consequences for the syntax of tense, quantification, word order, quantifier floating, wh-extraction, and clause structure. Evidence is provided for the architecture of the left, for remnant IP movement, and for the claim that “micro-” lexical differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese reduce to syntactic “macro-” variation: absence vs. presence of V-movement
On Finiteness and the Left Periphery
Inflected Infinitives in Romance
In this chapter we explore the properties of inflected infinitives in Portuguese and establish a parallelism with Spanish and Italian infinitives, which are not overtly inflected. The different behaviors concerning complementation, both in finites and in infinitives, are suggested to be derived from the presence of a tense feature in the complementizer. We discuss different classes of verbs (epistemic–declarative, volitive, and factive) that sele…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Feature (linguistics) (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Romance languages (2 works) · Syntax (2 works) · Variation (astronomy) (2 works)