Subject position and social position: a case of grammar competition in 19th and 20th centuries letters

Tarallo (1993) proposes that the turn of the 20th century is a landmark in the history of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), with the emergence of a Brazilian grammar different from the European Portuguese one specially in relation to the preference for lexical subjects, instead of null pronominal subjects...

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Main Author: Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-07-01
Series:Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/flp/article/view/83496