This paper shows that some properties of possessive and existential sentences in Brazilian Portuguese can be properly explained if the possessive-existential verb ter ‘have’ is derived by the combination of the features associated with estar ‘be’ and the features corresponding to the comitative preposition com ‘with’. I will concentrate on the following facts: (i) the thematic parallelism betweenter- and estar com-clauses in possessive and existential domains; (ii) the restrict interpretation of null possessors in ter-constructions; and (iii) the emergence of ter as an existential verb in Brazilian Portuguese, but not in European Portuguese.
JON-AND, ANNA, JUANITO ORNELAS DE AVELAR & LAURA ÁLVAREZ LÓPEZ
2020. Contact, Variation and Change in Angolan Portuguese: The Case of Existential Constructions in Cabinda. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97:1 ► pp. 81 ff.
Kayne, Richard S.
2020. Notes on Expletive There
. The Linguistic Review 37:2 ► pp. 209 ff.
2033. Title Pending 10202. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
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