An inner structure approach for personal pronouns in brazilian portuguese

This paper discusses how the wide use of pronominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese is allowed by their internal compositionality. From a minimalist approach of grammar (CHOMSKY, 1995, 1998, 1999), an enriched formal feature theory (BÉJAR, 2003; CARVALHO, 2008, 2010), developed on the basis of feature...

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Autor: Carvalho, Danniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Signótica (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/41134
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/41134
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pronominal system. Syncretism. Agreement. Underspecification.
Sistema pronominales. Sincretismo. Concordancia. Subespecificación.
Sistema pronominal. Sincretismo. Concordância. Subespecificação.
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Sumario:This paper discusses how the wide use of pronominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese is allowed by their internal compositionality. From a minimalist approach of grammar (CHOMSKY, 1995, 1998, 1999), an enriched formal feature theory (BÉJAR, 2003; CARVALHO, 2008, 2010), developed on the basis of feature entailment and underspecification to compose those pronouns is adopted, which sheds light on the former problem of agreement between elements which differ from each other with relation to their set of features (person, number and gender). This approach leads to a clearer description of the syncretism of personal pronominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese strictly dependent on their inner structure, which considerably simplifies the description of agreement operations in such language.