Nump and silent nouns: Syntactic boundaries for plural marking in BP
This paper examines the DP-internal distribution of the plural morpheme in non-standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and argues that this is determined by the position of either cardinals (DANON, 2011; NORRIS, 2014) or silent nouns (KAYNE, 2005). Therefore, I propose that: (I) cardinals divide BP DPs i...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Lingüística (ANPOLL) |
| Repositorio: | Revista da ANPOLL (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br:article/1082 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1082 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Brazilian portuguese nominal concord Plural morpheme NumP Silent nouns Concordância nominal em PB Morfema de plural |
| Sumario: | This paper examines the DP-internal distribution of the plural morpheme in non-standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and argues that this is determined by the position of either cardinals (DANON, 2011; NORRIS, 2014) or silent nouns (KAYNE, 2005). Therefore, I propose that: (I) cardinals divide BP DPs into two domains in which phrases that precede NumP are marked with the plural morpheme while phrases that follow it are unmarked; (II) silent nouns have basically the same function in structures where cardinals cannot appear; and (III) number features are interpretable and valued in Num (AUGUSTO et al., 2006) and become valued in D and N after agreement (PESETSKY; TORREGO, 2006). |
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