Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan

This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken southern Brazil contact with Portuguese. Central that constitutes basis is null-subject language presenting agreement-like clitics; Portuguese partial pro-drop language, which null subjects are allowed only precise syntactic conditions it developing reduced pronominal subjects. will address two changes we detected Venetan respect to pronouns: non-contrastive realisation first person singular tonic pronoun, change clitics, seem be used as weak rather than items. claim has connected simplification interface between discourse, pattern commonly attested bilingual speakers, while second can quite safely ascribed partially overlapping structure, namely analyse phenomena, trying find possible links them order develop an analysis clitics may most probably effect