Interpretable everywhere : hybrid agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
Varaschin, Giuseppe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Machicao y Priemer, Antonio (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Alemanya))

Data:	2025
Resum:	The goal of this paper is to account for the variable agreement properties of the 1PL pronoun a gente in Brazilian Portuguese. We argue that previous approaches make wrong predictions about how different types of agreement with a gente work in different environments (Costa & Pereira 2013; Taylor 2009, i. a. ). As an alternative, we argue for a dual-feature approach that incorporates the distinction between ϕ-features that are semantically interpretable (INDEX features) and those that determine phonological exponents (CONCORD features) (Smith 2021; Wechsler & Zlati'c 2003). We propose that a gente has 1PL value for the former and a 3SG value for the latter and that both types of features can be targeted in non-anaphoric agreement (e. g. subject-verb agreement). The distinct usage preferences for different types of features in different environments follows from register considerations: structures where a gente is associated with overt 1PL exponents convey opposing social meanings. In order to capture this effect, we formulate a theory of social meaning composition based on formal models of honorification and conventional implicatures (cf. Machicao y Priemer et al. 2025; McCready 2019; Potts 2007; Varaschin et al. 2024).
Nota:	This research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - SFB 1412, 416591334, Project A04.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Agreement ; Concord-index distinction ; Pronouns ; Variation ; Φ-features ; Register ; Social meaning ; Conventional implicatures
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 11, Num. 7 (2025) , p. 1-45 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v11-n7-varaschin-machicao
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.576

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