Possessive Pronouns in European Portuguese and Old French

The aim of this paper is to bring European Portuguese (EP) data into light, showing that, in spite of the lack of morphological evidence, the syntactic behaviour of possessives, across EP dialects, shows evidences for a tripartite possessive system (Cardinaletti, 1998; Cardinaletti & Starke, 199...

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Main Author: Matilde Miguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2002-12-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/43