Selected work
Publications
Lacerda, Renato. 2024. On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 42(1): 209-245. [Download] [View-only full text]
Lacerda, Renato. 2023/2024. Ruling out VSO and VOS constructions in Brazilian Portuguese. To appear in Caderno de Squibs. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2021. The middle field of Brazilian Portuguese and the size of the verbal domain. In The Size of Things I: Structure Building, ed. by Sabine Laszakovits and Zheng Shen, 285-304. Berlin: Language Science Press. [Download] [Book info]
Lacerda, Renato. 2020. Configurational Information Structure: Evidence From Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of The 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, ed. by Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, and Ayana Whitmal, 143-152. Amherst, MA: UMass Graduate Linguistics Student Association. [Published version (scanned PDF)] [Pre-publication version (searchable PDF)]
Lacerda, Renato. 2019. The syntax of Contrastive Topic-Focus Association in the middle field of Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Richard Stockwell et al., 237-242. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2017. Information Structure in child English: Contrastive topicalization and the dative alternation. In Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. by Maria LaMendola and Jennifer Scott, 387-400. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2016. Rebel without a Case: Quantifier floating in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. In Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America, ed. by Mary A. Kato & Francisco Ordóñez, 78-106. New York: Oxford University Press. [Pre-publication version] [Book info] [Google books]
Lacerda, Renato. 2016. Topicalization as predication: The syntax-semantics interface of low topics in Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Kyeong-min Kim et al., 256-265. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2011. Todos os quantificadores têm cada um as suas particularidades. In Anais do VII Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN. [Download]
Presentations
Lacerda, Renato. 2024. Licensing topics in Brazilian Portuguese. Invited roundtable talk given at XIII Romania Nova. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2023. Foco in situ em português brasileiro: Há movimento coberto?. Talk given at XIII Congresso Internacional da Abralin. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2023. Are there focus heads in Brazilian Portuguese?. Talk given at 30 Years Distributing Morphology from North to South. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2023. Quando sujeitos e objetos competem: Sobre a ausência de VSO e VOS em português brasileiro. Talk given at the IV Encontro de Gramática Gerativa. [Watch on Youtube]
Lacerda, Renato. 2022. Are there focus phrases in Brazilian Portuguese?. Talk given at Formal Approaches to Galician and Portuguese Grammar. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2018. Contrastive Topic-Focus Association in the sentential middle field of Brazilian Portuguese. Talk given at LSRL 48. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2018. “All” quantifiers can float, but not all quantifiers can float. Poster presented at PLC 42. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2017. Preposition stranding in a “non-preposition-stranding language”: Brazilian Portuguese. Poster presented at LSRL 47. [Download]
Lacerda, Renato. 2013. Structure-dependent quantifier floating in Brazilian Portuguese. Paper presented at Going Romance 2012. [Download]