Notes on Contributors vii 1 History and Current Setting 1 Maria Teresa Brocardo and Celia Regina dos Santos Lopes 2 European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: An Overview on Word Order 15 Mary Aizawa Kato and Ana Maria Martins 3 Portuguese in Contact 41 Ana Maria Carvalho and Dante Lucchesi 4 A Comparative Study of the Sounds of European and Brazilian Portuguese: Phonemes and Allophones 56 Gladis Massini?Cagliari, Luiz Carlos Cagliari, and Wayne J. Redenbarger 5 Phonological Processes Affecting Vowels: Neutralization, Harmony, and Nasalization 69 Leda Bisol and João Veloso 6 Syllable Structure 86 Gisela Collischonn and W. Leo Wetzels 7 Main Stress and Secondary Stress in Brazilian and European Portuguese 107 José Magalhães 8 The Phonology-Syntax Interface 125 Raquel S. Santos and Marina Vigário 9 Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese 141 Sónia Frota and João Antônio de Moraes 10 The Phonology and Morphology of Word Formation 167 Alina Villalva and Carlos Alexandre Goncalves 11 The Morphology and Phonology of Inflection 188 Luiz Carlos Schwindt and W. Leo Wetzels 12 Clitic Pronouns: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax 210 Ana R. Luís and Georg A. Kaiser 13 The Null Subject Parameter and the Structure of the Sentence in European and Brazilian Portuguese 234 Ines Duarte and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva 14 The Structure of DPs 254 Ana Maria Brito and Ruth E. V.
Lopes 15 Wh ?movement: Interrogatives, Relatives and Clefts 275 Carlos Mioto and Maria Lobo 16 Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese 294 Sonia Cyrino and Gabriela Matos 17 Passives and Se Constructions 318 Ana Maria Martins and Jairo Nunes 18 Binding and Pronominal Forms in Portuguese 338 Sergio Menuzzi and Maria Lobo 19 The Semantics of DPs 356 Marcelo Barra Ferreira and Clara Nunes Correia 20 Lexical Semantics: Verb Classes and Alternations 374 Márcia Cançado and Anabela Gonçalves 21 Tense and Aspect: A Survey 392 Rodolfo Ilari, Maria Fátima Oliveira, and Renato Miguel Basso 22 Mood and Modality 408 Rui Marques and Roberta Pires de Oliveira 23 Some Issues in Negation in Portuguese 425 Scott A. Schwenter 24 Discourse Markers 441 Ana Cristina Macário Lopes 25 From Latin to Portuguese: Main Phonological Changes 457 D. Eric Holt 26 Main Morphosyntactic Changes and Grammaticalization Processes 471 Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes and Maria Teresa Brocardo 27 Main Syntactic Changes from a Principle?and?Parameters View 487 Charlotte Galves and Anthony Kroch 28 Main Current Processes of Phonological Variation 504 Celeste Rodrigues and Dermeval da Hora 29 Main Current Processes of Morphosyntactic Variation 526 Maria Marta Pereira Scherre and Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte 30 Acquisition of Phonology 545 Giovana Ferreira?Gonçalves and Maria João Freitas 31 Acquisition of Portuguese Syntax 562 João Costa and Ruth E. V. Lopes 32 Second Language Acquisition 578 Ana Madeira Index 591.