The effect of verbal agreement marking on the use of null and overt subjects: a quantitative study of first person singular in Brazilian Portuguese
In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigated whether there is a preference for null or overt subjects with ambiguous (syncretic) and exclusive (unambiguous) verbs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Previous literature has proposed that BP (i) is deactivating the “Avoid Pronoun Pri...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Fórum Linguístico |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/59964 |