Gênero em sentenças copulares no PB: da “discordância” entre sujeito e predicativo para a concordância entre adjetivo e silent noun
This paper aims to analyze nominal concord in structures with copula where the subject has a feminine NP while the predicate has a masculine AP (“Mudança é cansativo.” Change-FEM is tiring-MASC. ‘Change is tiring’). This results in an apparent mismatch in gender agreement. Based upon Kayne (2005), P...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Caderno de Squibs |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33957 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/cs/article/view/33957 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | gênero concordância estrutura do DP silent noun sentenças copulares |
| Sumario: | This paper aims to analyze nominal concord in structures with copula where the subject has a feminine NP while the predicate has a masculine AP (“Mudança é cansativo.” Change-FEM is tiring-MASC. ‘Change is tiring’). This results in an apparent mismatch in gender agreement. Based upon Kayne (2005), Pesetsky (2013), and Höhn, I argue that a silent pronoun (ALGO-‘SOMETHING’), located in the post-copula DP, checks gender features of the adjective (ex.: “Mudança é [ALGO cansativo].”). In sum, instead of unagreement, there is agreement between the adjective and a silent pronoun bearing masculine gender features, in the internal cartography of the post-copula DP. |
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