Free and depedent small clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Mini-orações livres e dependentes em Português Brasileiro

This paper examines free small clauses, which, unlike dependent small clauses, exhibit peculiar properties: (a) they are restricted to occur with individual level and event adjectives, (b) they have to appear with the subject postposed. After considering several hypotheses on the nature of this inve...

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Main Author: Mary Aizawa Kato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2007-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502007000300007