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. 395–414
Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese
Published online: 16 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.13hya
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.13hya
Article outline
- 1.Universal biases: SASH and the CFC in European and Mozambican Portuguese
- 2.What about frequency?
- 3.SASH and a verb-centric parser
- 4.Control in EP: Intervention vs. SASH
- 5.The CFC hypothesis and raising
- 6.Inflected infinitives in L2 acquisition
- 7.Obviation effects in subjunctive complements
- 8.The Interface Hypothesis: Evidence from Portuguese?
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