Marcello Modesto

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcello Modesto is involved.

Articles

Modesto, Marcello 2018 Inflected infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and the theory of Control Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition, Santos, Ana Lúcia and Anabela Gonçalves (eds.), pp. 59–100 | Chapter

In this chapter, we describe the distribution of inflected infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese (BP); discuss the possible interpretations of their subjects when null and address the debate between Modesto (2010) and proponents of the movement theory of Control (MTC, particularly Boeckx &… read more

Modesto, Marcello 2008 Topic prominence and null subjects The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 375–409 | Article

This chapter presents data from Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish and Chinesewhich show that, at least in these languages, phonologically null subjects may belicensed and identified without the participation of verbal agreement. The analysisproposed treats those cases of null subjects as elided topics… read more