Variant patterns of Subject-Verb agreement in Portuguese: morphological and phonological issues

In this paper, we start from a basic assumption: agreement is a most relevant operation for the Portuguese language speakers as a whole. The data from different varieties of Portuguese support this view, both in the Subject-Verb domain and within the NP, as well as the fact that speakers don’t prefe...

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Main Author: Maria Antónia Mota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/73