Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese copular sentences
Keywords:
agreement, bare nominal, copulaAbstract
This work is concerned with copular clauses in Brazilian Portuguese like Mulher(es) é complicado, in which the predicate exhibits an unmarked form for gender and number (masculine singular), in spite of the feminine and/or plural form of the noun in the subject constituent. We reject the analyses that propose (i) there is a hidden infinitive in the subject position, (ii) the agreement is an instance of semantic agreement, and (iii) the DP subject would be in an A-bar position. We argue that the subject is a nominal that lacks index features, used in the external agreement (WECHSLER, 2011; DANON, 2012; DUEK, 2012; FOLTRAN; RODRIGUES, 2013).
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