Tainara D. Agostini

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tainara D. Agostini plays a role.

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Agostini, Tainara D. and Scott A. Schwenter 2018 Chapter 4. Variable negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese: Acceptability and frequency Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 71–94 | Chapter
We provide empirical evidence that colloquial Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is a variable negative concord language, which allows negative indefinites (NIs) to occur in postverbal position without a preverbal negative licensor, as in Vi nada ontem ‘I saw nothing yesterday.’ The results of an online… read more