Abstract:In this study, in a written sentence completion experiment, we contrast European and Brazilian Portuguese in what concerns the production of null, overt pronouns and full NPs, as subjects of verb complement clauses, to refer to the previously mentioned entities (or to extra-discursive referents). Results show that overall participants prefer to use null pronouns and that these pronouns are preferentially used to refer to the closest NP, especially in BP. Moreover, overt pronouns and full NPs are hardly used, b… Show more
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