[PDF] Top 20 Null Objects and VP ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese

... cognate Null Object interpretation, which is preferential, and VPE reading, which is felt as unnatural by the ...speakers. In (79b) and (79c) the null object reading is not available ... See full document

... for VP ellipsis and for elided ...elided null arguments may come exactly from sentences such as (26), null objects within ...ambiguity in BP than in EP and ... See full document

... sentences in Brazilian Portuguese: (1) coordinate structure with conjoined objects (nongapping), like Alice baked cakes for her friends and cookies for her cousin; and (2) ... See full document

... predicate ellipsis, namely Verbal Phrase Ellipsis (VPE), also known in the literature as Verb-stranding ellipsis, and Tense Phrase Ellipsis (TPE), also called Stripping or ... See full document

... Here, we focus on how pronoun probability (i.e., the frequency of occurrence of alternative pronominal forms) may affect resolution. This is relevant not only for theories that aim at making quantitative predictions ... See full document

... produce VP-ellipsis. These results contrast with the results in the other groups: 86% of the L1 adults, 80% of the HS and 95% of the monolingual children use VP- ...children and ... See full document

... resulting in a gradual loss of the characteristics of a null-subject language (such as Italian or European Portuguese (henceforth EP)), thereby moving from a pro-drop to a partial pro-drop ... See full document

... sentences and then to respond to a question indicating their interpretation of the embedded pronoun (null or overt), by choosing between two options (an example of question-answer pair is presented ... See full document

... acquisition. In fact, there are studies on other structures and other languages that show that variation in the system may determine developmental ...Costa and Lobo (2011) have shown that ... See full document

... English and Portuguese 2 , we will claim that the existence of VP ellipsis is linked to the availability of a verbal licenser in a sentence functional projection that locally c-commands ... See full document

... jump in lexicon ...accent in each of the two syllables, and production of a two-syllable word with just one pitch accent (which is the adult-like ...strategy. In the first example, Luma (at ... See full document

... verbs and infinitival complements present some particularities across the Romance languages, namely “the distribution of the thematic subject of the infinitive verb embedded under the causative, and the ... See full document

... structures, in terms of syntax and information structure. In what concerns the information status, crosslinguistic studies have shown that the constituents on the left and right peripheries ... See full document

... assertiveness, and material success”, whereas femininity “stands for a preference for relationships, modesty, caring for the week, and the quality of ...life. In a masculine society, even the women ... See full document

... investigated in the present study is whether the EP speakers would show asymmetrical performance for trochaic and iambic stress ...(2014), in a behavioral study, found that pitch and vowel ... See full document

... discussed in the present study allow us to render visible the importance of viewpointing in our lives, specifically in human cognition and verbal language, as Dancygier and Sweetser ... See full document

... of European Portuguese demonstrative forms derives, similarly to the definite articles system, from the Classical Latin three-part demonstrative system (↗22 From Latin and Vulgar Latin to Romance ... See full document

... proximants in coda. In a corpus collected between 2009 and 2011, com- prising several education levels, age groups, and central and peripheral neighbourhoods, the authors analyze the ... See full document

... nature and also its relevance as a structure among others available to convey ...be in agreement with the idea that the production of an elided structure, if possible in the target grammar, is ... See full document

... differences in career patterns. In Braga almost exclusively jurists entered the cathedral hierarchy, while in Coimbra the cathedral chapter was clearly dominated by Artists, Theologians and ... See full document