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dc.creatorAroldo Leal de Andradept_BR
dc.creatorCharlotte Galvespt_BR
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-16T21:39:41Z-
dc.date.available2022-12-16T21:39:41Z-
dc.date.issued2019-09-11-
dc.citation.volume4pt_BR
dc.citation.issue1pt_BR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.897pt_BR
dc.identifier.issn2397-1835pt_BR
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1843/48163-
dc.description.resumoSeveral studies have observed that older Romance languages had more frequent object-verb order than their modern counterparts. This article explores the idea that contrast is crucial to understand the shift to verb-object order, as part of a more encompassing notion of boundedness, which has been frequently associated with the V2 parameter. To do so, we first show that some fronting constructions involving demonstratives were available in Old and Classical Portuguese, but not in Modern Portuguese, as a consequence of the existence of a KP projection hosting contrastive items of different sorts acting as delimitators. Second, we present some changes between Old and Classical Portuguese: (i) a decrease in fronted objects with demonstratives; (ii) an increase in the frequency of null subjects; and (iii) a small decrease in the frequency of frame setters. We propose that these shifts are to be attributed to an information-structural change correlated with a syntactic change concerning the position of complementizers and verb movement in subordinate clauses. To wit, while Old Portuguese was a symmetrical relaxed C-V2 language, Classical Portuguese was an asymmetrical one, which is reflected in terms of a reduced left periphery of subordinate clauses in the latter, in which KP cannot be projected. The article presents some implications of this account for the derivation of basic word order patterns and of clitic interpolation in Old Portuguese and for the loss of V2 in the history of Portuguese. These results suggest that the connection between boundedness, contrast and V2 grammars can be profitably explored in Old Romance languages.pt_BR
dc.format.mimetypepdfpt_BR
dc.languageengpt_BR
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Geraispt_BR
dc.publisher.countryBrasilpt_BR
dc.publisher.departmentFALE - FACULDADE DE LETRASpt_BR
dc.publisher.initialsUFMGpt_BR
dc.relation.ispartofGlossa: a Journal of General Linguisticspt_BR
dc.rightsAcesso Abertopt_BR
dc.subjectContrastpt_BR
dc.subjectLinguistic changept_BR
dc.subjectPortuguesept_BR
dc.subjectVerb movementpt_BR
dc.subjectWord orderpt_BR
dc.subject.otherLingüísticapt_BR
dc.subject.otherLíngua portuguesapt_BR
dc.subject.otherMudanças linguísticaspt_BR
dc.titleContrast and word order: a case study on the history of Portuguesept_BR
dc.title.alternativeContraste e ordem das palavras: um estudo de caso sobre a história do portuguêspt_BR
dc.typeArtigo de Periódicopt_BR
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1354-7916pt_BR
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5326-1568pt_BR
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