The Effect of Semantic and Discourse Features on the Use of Null and Overt Subjects - A Quantitative Study of Third Person Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

ABSTRACT In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigate whether semantic and discourse features of the antecedents affect the use of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. Previous literature has proposed two hypotheses: the Hierarchy of Referentiality Hypothesis (Cyri...

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Main Author: Soares,Eduardo Correa (author)
Other Authors: Miller,Philip (author), Hemforth,Barbara (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Null Subjects
Animacy
Specificity
Anaphora Resolution
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502020000100406
Country:Brazil
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