Pronominal order in Brazilian Portuguese: from enclisis to proclisis, from clitic to tonic (or There and Back Again, a Word Order’s Holiday)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2017v14n1p1717 We investigate the grammatical motivations (i) behind the change from enclisis to proclisis that took place in the nineteenth century, and (ii) behind the increase of the tonic pronoun as a verbal complement. The central hypothesis here is that the...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Fórum Linguístico |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/45039 |