Feature interpretability and the positions of 2nd person possessives in Brazilian Portuguese
Interpretability and valuation of φ-features (Chomsky, 2001; Pesetsky and Torrego, 2007) have played a central role in the investigation of language universals. With regard to that, in standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), as well as in other Romance languages, possessives have uninterpretable number...
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Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2016-12-01
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Series: | Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa |
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Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/flp/article/view/117112 |