The null object/overt pronoun split in Brazilian Portuguese has been assimilated to differential object marking in some functionalist accounts (Schwenter and Silva 2002, Schwenter 2006). This paper examines further arguments for this connection; we evaluate a battery of more formal diagnostics under which the Brazilian Portuguese data pattern similarly to canonical instances of prepositional marking across Romance (Romanian, Spanish, etc.). The application of other tests weakens the assumption of a unique licensing position for differentially marked objects in Romance languages.
Manifestations of differential object marking: from Brazilian Portuguese to prepositional accusatives / Irimia, Monica Alexandrina; Cyrino, Sonia. - In: REVUE ROUMAINE DE LINGUISTIQUE. - ISSN 0035-3957. - LXII:4(2017), pp. 411-426.
Manifestations of differential object marking: from Brazilian Portuguese to prepositional accusatives
Monica Alexandrina IRIMIA;
2017
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The null object/overt pronoun split in Brazilian Portuguese has been assimilated to differential object marking in some functionalist accounts (Schwenter and Silva 2002, Schwenter 2006). This paper examines further arguments for this connection; we evaluate a battery of more formal diagnostics under which the Brazilian Portuguese data pattern similarly to canonical instances of prepositional marking across Romance (Romanian, Spanish, etc.). The application of other tests weakens the assumption of a unique licensing position for differentially marked objects in Romance languages.
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