Bearing the Brazilian cross
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem - ReVEL |
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| Web | http://www.revel.inf.br/files/0ff31931c754c02b7c337272c39ede87.pdf |
| Keywords | Brazilian Portuguese; morpho-syntax; subjunctive; indicative; Nanosyntax; vowel raising; irregular verbs; portmanteau; root suppletion |
| Description | Brazilian Portuguese displays a “cross” pattern in its marking of the present tense: the suffix -a/ ~5w is indicative with verbs of class I, but subjunctive with other verbs; the suffix -I(n) is the mirror image, subjunctive with verbs of class I but indicative with other verbs. We show that this pattern can be captured while keeping a principled morphology unified with syntax, and without postulating context-sensitive rules or morphology-specific operations. The key is to take into account the special phonology affecting verbal roots when they are suffixed by -I(n). |
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