A. Carlos Quícoli
Professor
(310) 206-8584
email: quicoli@humnet.ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
M.A., English and American Literature, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
B.A. and Licentiate, English and Portuguese, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Publications

  • "Portuguese Reflexivization and Some Related Problems," Working Papers in Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus (1971).
  • "On Portuguese Impersonal Verbs", Readings in Portuguese Linguistics (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1976).
  • "Missing Subjects in Portuguese", Current Studies in Romance Linguistics (Georgetown University Press, 1976).
  • "Conditions on Clitic-Movement in Portuguese," Linguistic Analysis (1975).
  • "Conditions on Quantifier Movement in French," Linguistic Inquiry (1976).
  • "Some Characteristics of the Caipira Dialect," Encruzihadas/Crossroads (1978).
  • "Clitic Movement in French Causatives," Linguistic Analysis (1979).
  • "The Placement of Y, En in French Causatives" Linguistic Analysis (1981).
  • The Structure of Complementation (Belgium, 1982).
  • "Finite and Infinitival Agreement in Portuguese" Encruzihadas/Crossroads (1982).
  • "Some Issues on the Theory of Clitics", Linguistic Analysis (1982).
  • "Deductive Systems and the Concept of Reality in Linguistic Theory", Manuscrito (1982).
  • "Remarkds on French Clitic Systems," Linguistic Analysis (1984).
  • "Zero Stimulation for Parameter Setting," (with R. Freidin) Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1989).
  • "Harmony, Lowering and Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese," Lingua (1990).
  • "The Linguistics of Discovery," (with C. Parodi) Encruzihadas/Crossroads (1995).
  • "NP Traces and the ECP/Binding Overlap." Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory (Georgetown University Press, 1995).
  • "Inflection and Parametric Variation: Portuguese vs. Spanish," Current Issues in Comparative Grammar (1996).
  • "Inflection and Empty Categories,: Current Issues in Comparative Grammar (1996).
  • "Cyclicity and Stress Erasure in Portuguese and Spanish," Rivista de Linguistica (1995).
  • Aspects of Romance Linguistics (with C. Parodi, M. Saltarelli and M. Zubizarreta (Georgetown University Press, 1996).

Research Interests

  • Portuguese linguistics