Null subjects in european and Brasilian Portuguese

The goals of this paper are twofold: a) to provide a structural account of the effects of the informal ‘Avoid Pronoun Principle’, proposed in Chomsky (1981: 65) for the Null Subject Languages (NSLs), and b) to compare, in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP and BP), the distribution of the third p...

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Main Author: Barbosa, Pilar (author)
Other Authors: Kato, Mary (author), Duarte, Eugênia (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/6466
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/6466