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In:Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition
Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17] 2018
► pp. 243–260

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Comments on complementation in Portuguese

 | University of Lisbon
Published online: 16 August 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.08dua
Article outline
  • 1.Inflecting dialects in BP and pseudo-inflected infinitives in EP
  • 2.Subject extraction out of finite complement clauses
  • 3.Multiple subjects and the NSL property
  • 4.Challenges for obviation analyses
  • 5.Dissociating finiteness, phi-features and Case
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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