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Pronouns & Basic Sentence Structure

Subject pronouns, SVO order, ser vs estar and basic questions
Sintaxe: teoria X-bar
syntax: X-bar theory
X-bar theory
Phrase structure of Portuguese clauses
Sujeito nulo: parâmetro
null subject: parameter
null subject parameter
Portuguese as a pro-drop language
Clíticos: análise formal
clitics: formal analysis
formal clitics
Clitic morphosyntax and movement
Orações relativas: teoria
relative clauses: theory
relative clause theory
Syntactic analysis of relativisation
Movimento-qu: wh-fronting
wh-movement: wh-fronting
wh-movement
In-situ vs fronted wh in BP
Ordem de palavras: pragmática
word order: pragmatics
word order
Topicalisation and focus in Portuguese
Infinitivo pessoal: análise formal
personal infinitive: formal analysis
personal inf formal
Unique syntactic property of Portuguese
Concordância: fenômenos especiais
agreement: special phenomena
special agreement
BP agreement relaxation in popular speech
Elipse: tipos em português
ellipsis: types in Portuguese
ellipsis
VP ellipsis, gapping, sluicing
Estrutura informacional
information structure
information structure
Topic, focus, and background in Portuguese