Left and right peripheries: asymmetries

Authors

  • Inês Duarte Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa / Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Ana Lúcia Santos Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa / Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Silvana Abalada Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a14

Keywords:

Asymmetries, Ellipsis, Left Periphery, Right Periphery

Abstract

In this paper, we compare the right and the left peripheries in European Portuguese, presenting evidence for the analysis of the right-peripheral material as elliptical in nature. We discuss several analyses for the right periphery in light of European Portuguese data, including: (i) data from spontaneous adult (child-directed) speech (5 adults, 29,398 utterances) annotated in the corpus Santos (Santos, 2006/2009; Santos et al., 2014) and (ii) experimental data (41 children aged between 3;5 and 6;3, and 30 adults) on the comprehension of topicalizations, clitic-left dislocations, post-focal subjects on the right periphery, and subject-verb inversions with a focused subject (Abalada, 2011).

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Published

2016-10-01

How to Cite

Duarte, I., Ana Lúcia Santos, & Silvana Abalada. (2016). Left and right peripheries: asymmetries. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (1), 311–343. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a14

Issue

No. 1 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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