Portuguese Syntactic Annotation
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Noun phrases
3. Clitic pronouns
4. Prepositional phrases
5. Adjective phrases
6. Adverbial phrases
7. Interjection phrases
8. Quantifiers
9. Numerals
10. Wh-phrases
11. Non-projecting categories
12. Empty categories
13. Clauses
14. Secondary predicates
15. Exceptive constructions
16. Left and right periphery phenomena
17. Conjunction
18. Ellipsis
19. Pragmatic markers
20. Reported speech
21. Fragments
22. Disfluencies
23. Non-linguistic labels
24. Treatment of individual words
25. List of syntactic tags
Data sources
12. Empty categories
12.1. Null subjects
12.1.1 Null subjects in finite clauses
12.1.1.1 Referential subject (NP-SBJ *pro*)
12.1.1.2 Expletive subject (NP-SBJ *exp*)
12.1.1.2.1 With weather verbs
12.1.1.2.2 With existential verbs 'haver/ter'
12.1.1.2.3 With the presentational verb 'ser'
12.1.1.2.4 With unaccusative verbs
12.1.1.2.5 With inergative verbs
12.1.1.2.6 With subject clauses
12.1.2 Null subjects in non-finite clauses
12.1.2.1 Arbitrary subject (NP-SBJ *arb*)
12.1.2.2 Referential subject with inflected infinitive (NP-SBJ *pro*)
12.1.3 Null subjects in small clauses
12.2. Null objects
12.2.1 Non-specific direct objects (NP-ACC *)
12.2.2 Specific direct objects (NP-ACC *pro*)
12.3. Traces
12.3.1 Wh-movement traces (*T*)
12.3.2 A'-movement traces (*ICH*)
12.3.3 A-movement traces (*)
12.4. Null operators (WXP 0)
12.5. Null complementizers (C 0)
12.6. Generic empty categories (X *)
12.7. The position and order of empty categories
12.7.1 The position of null subjects
12.7.2 The position of traces in IP
12.7.3 The position of traces in other constituents
12.7.4 Summary
12.7.5 The relative order of empty categories
12.8. Empty categories and split constituents
