Especificação morfológica de pronomes nominativos, concordância verbal e sujeitos nulos em português brasileiro

Nunes, Jairo

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“…Hence, the higher proportion of null 3Person referential pronouns shows that the use of null subject pronouns by patients with SZ is not in accordance with what is observed in CBP. Furthermore, according to the literature in partial null subject languages (including CBP), null 3Person referential pronouns are more frequent in embedded contexts taking the closest nominal expression as their antecedent [ 52 , 55 , 58 , 68 ]. Thus, given the higher rate of matrix independent sentences and the low rate of embedded sentences, most of the null 3Person referential pronouns found in our corpora of SZ narratives arguably occurred in the context of independent matrix clauses, which reinforces the idea that the SZ groups used null pronouns in a deviant way.…”

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“…CPB is a partial null subject language. Partial null subject languages, in contrast with full null subject languages such as Spanish, European Portuguese and Italian, impose syntactic and semantic constraints on 3Person null referential pronouns, restricting their occurrence to embedded clauses and forcing them to take the structurally closest noun phrase as their referential antecedent [ 52 – 55 ]. To exemplify this, consider the sentences in (1) and (2).…”

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Grammatical impairment in schizophrenia: An exploratory study of the pronominal and sentential domains

Chaves,

Rodrigues,

Ribeiro

et al. 2023

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Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental disorder associated with a variety of linguistic deficits, and recently it has been suggested that these deficits are caused by an underlying impairment in the ability to build complex syntactic structures and complex semantic relations. Aiming at contributing to determining the specific linguistic profile of SZ, we investigated the usage of pronominal subjects and sentence types in two corpora of oral dream and waking reports produced by speakers with SZ and participants without SZ (NSZ), both native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Narratives of 40 adult participants (20 SZ, and 20 NSZ–sample 1), and narratives of 31 teenage participants (11 SZ undergoing first psychotic episode, and 20 NSZ–sample 2) were annotated and statistically analyzed. Overall, narratives of speakers with SZ presented significantly higher rates of matrix sentences, null pronouns—particularly null 3Person referential pronouns—and lower rates of non-anomalous truncated sentences. The high rate of matrix sentences correlated significantly with the total PANSS scores, suggesting an association between the overuse of simple sentences and SZ symptoms in general. In contrast, the high rate of null pronouns correlated significantly with positive PANSS scores, suggesting an association between the overuse of null pronominal forms and the positive symptoms of SZ. Finally, a cross-group analysis between samples 1 and 2 indicated a higher degree of grammatical impairment in speakers with multiple psychotic episodes. Altogether, the results strengthen the notion that deficits at the pronominal and sentential levels constitute a cross-cultural linguistic marker of SZ.

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Grammatical impairment in schizophrenia: An exploratory study of the pronominal and sentential domains

Chaves,

Rodrigues,

Ribeiro

et al. 2023

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D-features or ellipsis in null subject licensing? Evidence from Brazilian and European Portuguese

Martins,

Nunes

2024

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Holmberg (Holmberg, Anders. 2005. Is there a little pro? Evidence from Finnish. Linguistic Inquiry 36(4). 533–564) and its revised version in Holmberg et al. (Holmberg, Anders, Aarti Nayudu & Michelle Sheehan. 2009. Three partial null-subject languages: A comparison of Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, and Marathi. Studia Linguistica 63(1). 59–97) derive the availability of null subjects in a given language from the interaction between T with/without a D(efiniteness)-feature and the features of subject pronouns. Their theory predicts the existence of consistent null subject languages, whose T has the D-feature, and partial null subject languages, whose T lacks the D-feature. This paper examines this D-feature approach to null subjects against the empirical evidence provided by Brazilian Portuguese, a partial null subject language, and European Portuguese, a consistent null subject language, showing that it cannot account for the range of microvariation observed with respect to different null subject pronouns and the type of T (finite vs. participle vs. gerund). We argue that, in comparison, the ellipsis account of null subject licensing put forward in Martins and Nunes (Martins, Ana Maria & Jairo Nunes. 2021. Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages. In Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen & Luisa Meroni (eds.), Romance languages and linguistic theory 2018. Selected papers from “Going Romance” 32, Utrecht, 171–190. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins) fares better. It retains from Holmberg (Holmberg, Anders. 2005. Is there a little pro? Evidence from Finnish. Linguistic Inquiry 36(4). 533–564 et seq.) the insight that the licensing of null subjects depends on the interaction between the features of T and the features of subject pronouns but resorts only to ϕ-features and Case. Crucially, it relies on the (theoretically and empirically) plausible assumption that the relation between abstract ϕ-features and verbal agreement morphology need not be transparent.

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Especificação morfológica de pronomes nominativos, concordância verbal e sujeitos nulos em português brasileiro

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Grammatical impairment in schizophrenia: An exploratory study of the pronominal and sentential domains

Grammatical impairment in schizophrenia: An exploratory study of the pronominal and sentential domains

D-features or ellipsis in null subject licensing? Evidence from Brazilian and European Portuguese

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