Duplicação de sujeitos pré-verbais no francês, no inglês e no português brasileiro: uma análise não-unificada

Abstract

In this paper I develop a comparative study between English, French and Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) about the constructions with double preverbal subjects in finite declarative sentences. It is common to assume that these constructions are similar in BP and French because the subjects are left dislocated, a fact that derives from the Avoid Principle Pronoun. With respect to English, the situation is the same: the preverbal subjects occupy an A-bar position because they are duplicated by a coreferent pronoun that checks the EPP-feature. Contrary this analysis, my principal aim is to present syntactic, semantic and prosodic evidences that show that constructions with double preverbal subjects in BP do not imply left dislocation of these subjects necessarily, contrary to English and French. For this analysis, I adopt the Distributed Morphology framework.