In:Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006
Edited by Danièle Torck and W. Leo Wetzels
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 303] 2009
► pp. 17–32
The status of the (supposed) expletive in Brazilian Portuguese existential clauses
Published online: 12 November 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.303.02ave
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.303.02ave
This paper characterizes the occurrence of the pronoun você ‘you’ in Brazilian
Portuguese existential clauses as an instance of an indeterminate pronoun, arguing
against the idea that it corresponds to an expletive. I present some evidence that você
is not directly merged in [Spec,TP], but in a thematic position within a locative
predicate that is part of the existential coda
