'A pessoa' and 'uma pessoa': Grammaticalization and functions of a human impersonal referential device in European Portuguese
The grammaticalization of nouns meaning ‘man’ or ‘person’ into impersonal pronouns (so-called 'man'-impersonals) has been related to languages with obligatory subject expression, like Germanic languages and French. Albeit regarded as a null-subject language, European Portuguese (EP) presen...
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Open Library of Humanities
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/254 |