The importance of the ‘semantic gender’ feature in the null object in brazilian portuguese

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2016v17n1p64 Since the XIX century (at least), the use of third person accusative clitic (o, a) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) has yielded to two strategies, (a) the use of tonic pronouns ele, ela or (b) the use of a null object. Assuming Creus e Menuzzi’s (2004) h...

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Main Authors: Gabriel de Ávila Othero, Mônica Rigo Ayres, Ana Carolina Spinelli, Camila Schwanke
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística 2016-12-01
Series:Working Papers em Linguística
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/45886