Variant patterns of Subject-Verb agreement in Portuguese: morphological and phonological issues

IF 0.2 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Maria Antónia Mota
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In this paper, we start from a basic assumption: agreement is a most relevant operation for the Portuguese language speakers as a whole. The data from different varieties of Portuguese support this view, both in the Subject-Verb domain and within the NP, as well as the fact that speakers don’t prefer the simplest solutions: the most productive plural agreement forms are the most complex ones, morphologically and phonologically. We focus the discussion on the interplay between different linguistic factors intervening in and promoting variant overt and covert patterns of agreement (the existence of agreement and the presence of visible marks, as expected in standard canonical schemes, constitute two separate questions). More specifically, we claim that it is worth to take into account the matching between the morphological and the phonological properties and features of the verb cells, in order to fully understand the attested variant outputs and the variant patterns of subject-verb agreement. We assume that the 3 rd  plural person-number marker has to be described in morphophonological terms, and we conclude that agreement is a morpho-phono-syntactic process, sensitive to the lexical-semantic features and discourse properties of the controller.
葡萄牙语主谓一致的变体模式:形态学和音系问题
在本文中,我们从一个基本假设开始:协议是葡萄牙语使用者作为一个整体最相关的操作。来自不同种类葡萄牙语的数据支持这一观点,无论是在主语-动词领域还是在NP中,以及说话者不喜欢最简单的解决方案的事实:最有成效的复数一致形式是最复杂的,在形态和音系上。我们将重点讨论不同语言因素之间的相互作用,这些因素干预和促进了不同的显性和隐性协议模式(协议的存在和可见标记的存在,如标准规范方案所期望的那样,构成了两个独立的问题)。更具体地说,为了充分理解已证实的变体输出和主谓一致的变体模式,我们认为有必要考虑动词细胞的形态和音系属性和特征之间的匹配。我们假设第三复数人称数标记必须用词形音素术语来描述,我们得出结论,一致是一个词形-音位-句法过程,对控制者的词汇-语义特征和话语属性敏感。
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-
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