Clitic doubling and pure agreement person features

In this paper, we analyze clitic doubling constructions in dialectal non-standard Brazilian Portuguese. Within the Minimalism Framework, we explain very peculiar aspects of the doubled structures in this language, namely the fact that they occur only for 1st and 2nd person pronouns and that they co-...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Machado Rocha, Jania Martins Ramos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2016-03-01
Series:Revista de Estudos da Linguagem
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/8127