The Effect of Semantic and Discourse Features on the Use of Null and Overt Subjects - A Quantitative Study of Third Person Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

The Effect of Semantic and Discourse Features on the Use of Null and Overt Subjects - A Quantitative Study of Third Person Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

ABSTRACT In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigate whether semantic and discourse features of the antecedents affect the use of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. Previous literature has proposed two hypotheses: the Hierarchy of Referentiality Hypothesis (Cyri...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Correa Soares, Philip Miller, Barbara Hemforth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2020-07-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
Subjects:
Null Subjects
Animacy
Specificity
Anaphora Resolution
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/pdf/delta/v36n1/1678-460X-delta-36-01-2020360107.pdf

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