VERB RAISING, THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF THE VERBAL PARADIGM AND THE WEAKENING OF TENSE IN BP

The paper revisits the debate on verb raising in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as well as the general discussions on the impoverishment of BP inflectional verbal paradigm. It suggests that the weakening of the inflectional system in BP is not sufficient, from both a theoretical and an empirical view, to...

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Main Author: Aquiles Tescari Neto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo 2016-12-01
Series:Revista do GEL
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Online Access:https://revistadogel.gel.org.br/rg/article/view/395