A Survey on Generic Impersonal Structures in Brazilian Portuguese
Karina Gomes Bertolino
Abstract:This article presents a survey on null generic impersonal structures conducted with native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The objective of the survey was (i) to investigate whether null impersonal constructions with the generic reading need to have elements such as fronted adverbials to check the EPP, a hypothesis put forward by Holmberg (2005, 2010a,b); (ii) verify to what extent BP-speakers require an overt marker of genericity (e.g., the generic clitic se and overt necessity deontic modals) in senten… Show more
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