Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Juanito Ornelas de Avelar is involved.
Titles
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil
Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino
The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 12] 2017. xi, 277 pp.
2018 Chapter 8. Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 187–210 | Chapter
In this chapter, we will focus on two set of changes reported in the literature on African and Brazilian varieties of Portuguese: (i) new uses of prepositions in directional complements of motion verbs and (ii) the emergence of ter (‘to have’) as a prototypically existential verb. Some facts… read more
2018 Introduction The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
This chapter introduces the idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil. It further identifies the common research questions, presenting earlier studies and discussing current gaps in research about Brazilian and African varieties of Portuguese. A detailed overview of the book explains… read more
2009 Chapter 7. The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 139–160 | Article
This paper shows that some properties of possessive and existential sentences in Brazilian Portuguese can be properly explained if the possessive-existential verb ter ‘have’ is derived by the combination of the features associated with estar ‘be’ and the features corresponding to the comitative… read more
2009 The status of the (supposed) expletive
in Brazilian Portuguese existential clauses Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 17–32 | Article
This paper characterizes the occurrence of the pronoun você ‘you’ in Brazilian
Portuguese existential clauses as an instance of an indeterminate pronoun, arguing
against the idea that it corresponds to an expletive. I present some evidence that você
is not directly merged in [Spec,TP], but in a… read more