Postverbal subjects and agreement in unaccusative contexts in European Portuguese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | João Costa (0000-0003-3058-2227, Canadian Linguistic Association, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlir.18.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2052535839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article discusses some cases of partial agreement in colloquial European Portuguese, relating it with different patterns of word order in unmarked contexts. It is shown that postverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs may display partial agreement with the verb. It is proposed that postverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs are not necessarily assigned nominative Case. The contrast in behavior between subjects of intransitive verbs and subjects of unaccusative verbs provides evidence for the traditional claim that preverbal subjects in null-subject languages are in Spec,IP. This challenges recent proposals according to which preverbal subjects in null-subject languages are left-dislocated. An analysis for the difference between the behavior of the subject of unaccusative and intransitive verbs is proposed within the framework of Optimality Theory
Agreement · European Portuguese · Linguistics · Nominative case · Portuguese · Syntax · Verb · Word order · Computer Science · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |