The structure of ethical constructions and the constraint on co-reference in brazilian portuguese
In this paper I discuss aspects of the grammar of ethical pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, investigating the position where they are first merged into the structure and providing evidence that they undergo A-movement to a projection in the split IP system (called OrientP), in order to check/ value a feature [+S] related to the sentential force and speaker orientation. Additionally, I study a constraint on co-reference: ethical pronouns cannot co-refer with referential elements in the same CP. I analyze the constraint on co-reference as a strong crossover violation in the sense of Postal (1971), Wasow (1972), Lasnik (1976).
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Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho
2014
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0807-89672014000100001 |
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