Ana Maria Martins is Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. Her research in comparative syntax and historical syntax covers topics such as word order, clitics, negation, emphatic polarity, infinitival structures, and passive and impersonal constructions. She has directed projects resulting in parsed corpora for the study of the syntax of European Portuguese dialects (CORDIAL-SIN) and the syntax of Old Portuguese (WOChWEL). She has published articles in journals such as Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Linguistic Inquiry, and is the editor of Manual de Linguistica Portuguesa (De Gruyter, 2016) and co-editor of the journal Estudos de Linguistica Galega.
Adriana Cardoso is Assistant Professor at the Higher Education College of Lisbon (ESELx) and researcher at the Linguistics Centre of the University of Lisbon (CLUL). Her main research interests are historical linguistics, comparative syntax, and educational linguistics. She was recently involved in the WOChWEL project (Word Order and Word Order Change in Western European Languages), sponsored by the Portuguese National Science Agency. Her book Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony was published in 2017 by OUP.
1. Word order change from a diachronic generative syntax perspective, Ana Maria Martins and Adriana Cardoso Part I Targets for movement: Changes in the functional architecture of the clause 2. Configurational change in Indo-European coordinate constructions, Moreno Mitrović 3. Discontinuous noun phrases and remnant-internal relativization in the diachrony of Portuguese, Adriana Cardoso 4. The relative cycle in Hungarian declaratives, Julia Bacskai-Atkari 5. Word order change at the left periphery of the Hungarian noun phrase, Barbara Egedi Part II Triggers for movement: Changes in nature or stability 6. Particle-verb order in Old Hungarian and complex predicates, Veronika Hegedűs 7. An effect of residual T-to-C movement in varieties of English, Judy B. Bernstein 8. Word order and information structure in the Wurzburg Glosses, Cara M. DiGirolamo Part III Verb movement into the left peripheries 9. Subject inversion in transitive sentences from Classical to Modern European Portuguese: A corpus-based study, Charlotte Galves and Alba Gibrail 10. Analyticization and the syntax of the synthetic residue, Chris H. Reintges and Sonia Cyrino 11. Loss of laten-support in embedded infinitivals in fifteenth-century Low Saxon, Gertjan Postma 12. The distribution of quantifiers in Old and Modern Italian: Everything or nothing, Jacopo Garzonio and Cecilia Poletto Part IV Types of movement and its constraints: Word order change in Latin 13. The decline of Latin VOAux: Neg-incorporation and syntactic reanalysis, Lieven Danckaert 14. On the decline of edge-fronting from Latin to Romance, Adam Ledgeway
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