Pro é o sujeito nulo em (algumas) sentenças do português brasileiro: um estudo de caso das impessoais nulas modalizadas

This squib discusses some characteristics of null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), a group of sentences with null subjects. We focus our discussion on modalized null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese, in which a deontic modal is invariably present. Aqui pode estacionar? (literally ‘Here c...

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Autor: Janayna Maria da Rocha Carvalho
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/53034
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1843/53034
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-1336
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sujeito nulo
PRO
Sentenças impessoais
Lingua portuguesa-gramática
Linguística
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Sumario:This squib discusses some characteristics of null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), a group of sentences with null subjects. We focus our discussion on modalized null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese, in which a deontic modal is invariably present. Aqui pode estacionar? (literally ‘Here can park?) is an example of a modalized null impersonal. Throughout the text, we present the properties of modalized null impersonals and differentiate them from other sentences with null subjects in BP, including non-modalized null impersonals. We ultimately show that the null subject in modalized null impersonals is PRO, given its resemblance to underexplored and subtle properties of this empty category, as discussed in Lebeaux (1988).