Cilene Rodrigues
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cilene Rodrigues is involved.
Articles
2010 Possessor raising through thematic positions Movement Theory of Control, Hornstein, Norbert and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 119–146 | Article
This chapter focuses on control into nominal domains. I analyze the consequences of loss of nominal agreement morphology for the case-licensing of null possessive pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, arguing that its null inalienable possessors result from possessor raising to thematic positions (and… read more
2009 Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 175–198 | Article
Merchant (2001) proposes that preposition stranding under sluicing is allowed only
in those languages that also allow P-stranding in regular wh- questions. Spanish and
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) seem to falsify this generalization, as both are non-Pstranding
languages that allow P-stranding under… read more