Sandra Quarezemin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sandra Quarezemin is involved.

Title

Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais

Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin

This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] 2020. ix, 216 pp.

Articles

Quarezemin, Sandra 2025 Chapter 21. The focalizing ser construction in Brazilian Portuguese The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 438–460 | Chapter

This article investigates the grammatical properties of the Focalizing ser Construction (FSC) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). It is shown that the FSC does not behave like the pseudo-cleft construction (Mioto 2012; Kato and Mioto 2016). The goal of this study is to propose an analysis that… read more

Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin 2020 Brazilian Portuguese, syntax and semantics: Twenty years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Quarezemin, Sandra 2020 Chapter 4. Brazilian double subjects and sentence structure Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin (eds.), pp. 107–134 | Chapter

This research investigates syntactic, semantic, and prosodic evidence of double subject sentences in Brazilian Portuguese. The paper verifies whether (i) such constructions can be analyzed as left dislocation; (ii) the pre-verbal subject behaves as a topic; (iii) the subject has the same… read more