RELIN 27:2 (2019) - Estudos de Gramática Formal (original) (raw)

This paper is part of the studies on the cartography of the DP structure, focusing on the discussion of the phenomenon of the extraction of constituents out of DPs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), a phenomenon that can be better accommodated assuming a robust DP structure in terms of functional categories. The study seeks to extend to BP the validation of the postulation of the projection of an FP category, as the most prominent projection in the nominal structure located above DP. The analysis is centered on the extraction of genitives, which are assumed to be constituents projected as specifiers, against an adjunction analysis for these constructions, as presented in Avelar (2006). With this study, we intend to present a proposal in which the structure of the noun phrase reflects the sentence-level architecture, but also allows a more homogeneous DP structure between different languages such as BP and Hungarian, for example. The theoretical framework in which discussion and analysis are developed is that of generative theory.