The Internal Structure of Personal Pronouns.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- 2.1 The Basics of Pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese -- 2.2 Personal Pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese -- 2.3 Syntactic Constraints on First-Person Pronoun Alternations -- 2.4 The Pronominal Subject of Embedded Infinitives -- 2.5 Summary -- Chapter Three -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Features and the Lexicon -- 3.1.2 Functional Categories -- 3.1.3 Syntactic Operations -- 3.1.4 Agreement and Case -- 3.2 Features and Pronoun Composition -- 3.2.1 What Determines the Distribution of a Pronoun -- 3.2.2 Enriched Pronouns -- 3.3 On the Compositionality of Pronouns -- 3.3.1 Cardinaletti and Starke (1999) -- 3.3.2 Déchaine and Wiltschko (2002) -- 3.3.3 Rullmann (2004) -- 3.3.4 Harley and Ritter (2002) -- 3.3.5 Béjar (2003) -- 3.4. Enriched Feature Notation -- 3.4.1 Feature Composition: Person -- 3.4.2. Feature Composition: Number -- 3.4.3 Feature Composition: Gender -- 3.5 Summary -- Chapter Four -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Enriched ij-Set and Agreement Conditions -- 4.2.1 Agreement Conditions via Feature Underspecification -- 4.2.2 Conditions on Match -- 4.2.3 Conditions on Value -- 4.3 Summary -- Chapter Five -- 5.1. Overview -- 5.2 Decomposing Case -- 5.2.1 Case Systems, Syntax, and Morphology -- 5.2.2 Case in Brazilian Portuguese -- 5.3 Case Underspecification -- 5.3.1 McFadden (2007) -- 5.4 A Case Underspecification Theory -- 5.4.1 Deficiency and Underspecification -- 5.4.2 Case Geometry -- 5.4.3 Value Condition for Case Features -- 5.4.4 From Determining Valuing to Realisation -- 5.4.4.1 Case and DP Domain -- 5.5 On Case in Embedded Infinitives in BP -- 5.6 Summary -- Chapter Six -- References.

This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, with a special emphasis on the first-person singular, which exhibits severe syncretism in this language. This study is an investigation into the formative features of pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese and their relationship with the phenomenon of syncretism. Empirically, this book provides a description of the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, showing that the traditional phi-features used to construct a pronoun (person, number, gender, and case) are actually categories which encompass more elemental features which define the content and the shape of a pronoun. It shows that more elementary component structures of the person, number, gender and case categories are able to satisfactorily describe the pronoun system in Brazilian Portuguese, meaning that different pronouns (and their syntactic roles) may be described based on their inner composition. In terms of theory, this book defines which elementary formative features form a pronoun, how these features are composed, and what the syntactic consequences are.

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