Brazilian Portuguese argument ellipsis : A hidden case of clitic doubling
Panitz, Ezekiel (Universidade de São Paulo)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	The present study puts forward a novel analysis of argument ellipsis (AE) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), according to which AE in BP takes place in a clitic doubling configuration, where the clitic is a phonologically null clitic and AE targets the clitic doubled DP. The clitic doubling analysis accounts for a number of the properties of AE in BP. Specifically, it accounts for the ability of AE to target object DPs; for the inability of AE to target subject DPs, including not only subjects of finite clauses but also subjects of small clauses and infinitival clauses; and for the inability of AE to target non-specific indefinite DPs and idiomatically construed DPs. The present study also reviews the influential anti-agreement theory of AE and argues that it does not offer a viable account of AE in BP, as it both undergenerates and overgenerates AE in BP.
Note:	Acknowledgments. Many thanks to Jairo Nunes, Janayna Carvalho, Klaus Abels, and Renato Lacerda for providing comments on an earlier version of the present article, and to Claudia Coelho, Jairo Nunes, Janayna Carvalho, Renato Lacerda, and Rosi Bueno for helpful discussions.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Argument ellipsis ; Null objects ; Clitic doubling ; Anti-agreement theory of argument ellipsis ; Brazilian Portuguese
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 9 Núm. 4 (2023) , p. 1-47 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v9-n4-panitz
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v9-n4-panitz
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.348

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