INFLECTION OF CADA AND NUMBER FEATURE VALUATION IN BP
This research investigates nominal concord in structures of non-standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP) where cada is inflected with the plural morpheme -s while the phrases following it may not bear any plural marking. In order to account for this, I will consider that cardinals and silent nouns work as...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Estudos Linguísticos e Literários (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/27910 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/estudos/article/view/27910 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Inflection of Cada Silent Nouns Number Features DP-Structure |
| Sumario: | This research investigates nominal concord in structures of non-standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP) where cada is inflected with the plural morpheme -s while the phrases following it may not bear any plural marking. In order to account for this, I will consider that cardinals and silent nouns work as a boundary dividing the DP into two domains such that phrases to their left are marked with the plural morpheme while phrases to their right are unmarked, a pattern found across languages. Additionally, I will argue that DPs with cadas have a silent noun SET and that this silent noun conveys a set reading as well as valued plural features. In this case, cada is interpreted as either ‘such’ or ‘every’ rather than ‘each’ and is followed by a noun or a cardinal ≥ 2 (plus a noun). Accordingly, because cadas precedes SET, it is marked with -s. This plural silent noun is followed by a preposition, which allows its embedded NP to be singular. |
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