Brazilian Portuguese noun phrases: An optimality theoretic perspective
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An Optimality-theoretic Analysis of Phonological and Syntactic Aspects of Enclisis and Proclisis in Old French, Brazilian and European Portuguese
the contraction of de + le > du, de + les > des, à + le > au and à + les > aux. These forms can be analyzed along the lines of Zwicky (1987) as syntactic allomorphy or along the lines of Hayes (1990) as precompiled phrasal allomorphy. The optional character of Old French enclisis seems to exclude such an analysis. The reader is referred to Jacobs (1993) for a more detailed account and to Evers ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2397-5563,1645-4537
DOI: 10.5334/jpl.58