Generalized phasal defectivity in Brazilian Portuguese
Nunes, Jairo (Universidade de São Paulo)

Fecha:	2022
Resumen:	Brazilian Portuguese displays a cluster of apparently unrelated properties that set it aside within Romance. On the one hand, it has lost its third person possessive pronouns (cf. Oliveira e Silva 1985, Perini 1985, Cerqueira 1996, and Müller 1996), its third person accusative and dative clitics (cf. Omena 1978, Duarte 1986, Galves 1987, Kato 1993, Nunes 1993, Cyrino 1997, and Berlinck 2006), and its null subjects and null possessors have become severely restricted (cf. Duarte 1995, Figueiredo Silva 1996, Kato 1999, Ferreira 2000, Modesto 2000, Galves 2001, Floripi 2003, and Rodrigues 2004). On the other hand, it came to allow hyper-raising constructions (cf. Ferreira 2000 and Nunes 2020b), as well as the so-called 'topic subject' constructions, where a putative topic controls verbal agreement (cf. Pontes 1987, Galves 1987, Nunes 2017, and Kato and Ordóñez 2019). Moreover, it makes a pervasive use of preposition deletion in relative clauses (cf. Tarallo 1983) and its directional verbs came to select the preposition em 'in' instead of a 'to' (cf. Wiedemer 2013). In this paper, I argue that these and other seemingly independent changes can be accounted for if there is a general process of underspecification affecting phases in Brazilian Portuguese.
Nota:	Acknowledgments. Earlier versions of the material discussed here have been presented at the Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 51 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4/9/21), the III Encontro de Gramática Gerativa (Universidade Federal da Bahia, 9/2/21), and the workshop Romance Languages: Recent Contributions to Linguistic Theory (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro/Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 4/28/22). I am thankful to these audiences and three anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions. Special thanks to Jonathan MacDonald and Janayna Carvalho. I would also like to acknowledge partial funding for this research provided by CNPq (grant 303195/2019-3).
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Phases ; Phi-defectiveness ; Inherent Case ; A-movement ; Minimality ; Brazilian portuguese
Publicado en:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 4 (2022) , p. 1-29 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-nunes
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.182

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