Subjects, topics and subject-topics in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese: a new perspective of analysis from the EPP-factoring

• Autor(a) principal: Buthers, Christiane Miranda
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/38356
• topic: Sujeito Preenchido; Fatoração de EPP; Língua de sujeito nulo parcial; Overt subject; EPP-factoring; Partial null-subject language

In this paper, we syntactically analyse sentences of Contemporary Brazilian Portuguese with the position on the left of the verb lexically overt by subjects, topics and subject-topics. According to several researches, this language has failed to authorize null-subjects, unlike the European Portuguese. Following assumptions of generative theory (CHOMSKY, 1995, 2005), from the qualitative and descriptive research data of orality, we propose the factoring of the uninterpretable feature-EPP, which is responsible for lexical occupation of the subject – Spec-TP –, in four features: [uP], [uD], [uFoc] and [uTop]. The subdivision EPP allows to explain the appearance and variation of XPs “merged” to the subject position in BP.