ECM, raising & control infinitival small clauses: case assignment in english and brazilian portuguese revisited in Chomsky's minimalist program

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Adriana C. R. Quinelo da
• Orientador(a): Ibaños, Ana Maria Tramunt
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Faculdade de Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA; GRAMÁTICA COMPARADA; SINTAXE; PORTUGUÊS - COMPLEMENTO VERBAL; CHOMSKY, NOAM - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; INGLÊS - VERBOS
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/2065

This dissertation claims that embedded Inflected Infinitival Small Clauses (IISCs) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are not well accounted for via any Movement- Approach, such as the Movement Theory of Control (MTC), as opposed to embedded infinitives in English. The main focus for the data analysis and for corroborating this thesis under Chomsky s (2008) Feature Inheritance is Control verb complements in BP and English, which in BP are taken as full φ-CP infinitives/φ-complete infinitival CPs, characterizing an unbounded Phase, while this possibility is not available in English. This difference thus adds evidence in favor of the approach to be pursued for Brazilian IISCs to be a Non-Movement one, so that the φ-features of the embedded subject can be saturated within the embedded CP-Phase. Concerning the embedded subject within this context, this dissertation then claims that in BP it is a noun (D/NP), pronoun or a pro (not a PRO), given the status of the embedded clause as a φ-complete, hence an [+ Agr] infinitival CP-Phase.