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Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition
Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17] 2018
► pp. 393–414

Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese

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Article outline
  • 1.Universal biases: SASH and the CFC in European and Mozambican Portuguese
  • 2.What about frequency?
  • 3.SASH and a verb-centric parser
  • 4.Control in EP: Intervention vs. SASH
  • 5.The CFC hypothesis and raising
  • 6.Inflected infinitives in L2 acquisition
  • 7.Obviation effects in subjunctive complements
  • 8.The Interface Hypothesis: Evidence from Portuguese?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 August 2018
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