Ter/Haver-Constructions and Verbal Agreement

The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) to analyze the use of the verbs ter and haver in the history of Portuguese and, more specifically, in a recent stage of Brazilian Portuguese, in which the possessive ter is used as an existential verb; and (ii) to discuss some properties involving ter and haver...

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Main Authors: Dinah Callou, Juanito Avelar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/72

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