Acrisio Pires
List of John Benjamins publications in which Acrisio Pires is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2213-3887
Title
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and infinitives
Acrisio Pires
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 98] 2006. xiv, 188 pp.
2020 Acquisition of null objects in Mandarin Chinese by heritage speakers: Syntax-pragmatics interface knowledge without inflectional morphology International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:2, pp. 223–269 | Article
The acquisition of the grammatical knowledge related to inflectional morphology and syntax-pragmatics interface have both been shown to be challenging for heritage speakers (e.g., Montrul et al. 2008; Polinsky 2006, 2008; Sorace et al. 2009; Montrul 2009; Benmamoun et al. 2013a; Laleko &… read more
2020 Chapter 8. Transfer and convergence between Catalan and Spanish in a bilingual setting Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives, Ortiz López, Luis A., Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera (eds.), pp. 179–212 | Chapter
We present results from a production study of forty-five bilingual Catalan-Spanish speakers (26 women and 19 men, aged 16 to 65 years old), to determine whether there is transfer or convergence between the two languages in a bilingual setting. The participants are residents of the capital and… read more
2018 (Hyper)-raising in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish: Interaction between case and agreement Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition, Santos, Ana Lúcia and Anabela Gonçalves (eds.), pp. 187–212 | Chapter
Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish allow subject NP-raising from non-finite clauses, but both languages also allow referential subjects in existential clauses with finite complement clauses. The latter have been referred to as hyper-raising in BP (Martins & Nunes, 2009) and further-raising in… read more
2013 Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese? Evidence from spontaneous production data Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 65–88 | Article
Building on our previous experimental work examining the acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese (EP) L1 acquisition (e.g. Pires, Rothman & Santos 2010, 2011; Santos, Duarte, Pires & Rothman 2011), the present study investigates the emergence of inflected infinitives in young EP… read more
2008 How much syntactic reconstruction is possible? Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. 27–72 | Article
This paper explores ways to synthesize methods from generative linguistics and historical linguistics to develop explanatory criteria that need to be satisfied by different attempts to carry out syntactic reconstruction. It addresses various questions such as (i) the need to define exactly what it… read more
2004 Review of Pintzuk, Tsoulas & Warner (2000): Diachronic Syntax: Models and mechanisms Diachronica 21:2, pp. 431–443 | Review
2001 PRO, Movement and Binding in Portuguese Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000, Camps, Joaquim and Caroline R. Wiltshire (eds.), pp. 153–168 | Article