The Null Indirect Object In Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.1998v1n1p35

Keywords:

Brazilian Portuguese, Null Indirect Object, Syntax.

Abstract

In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), much has been said about the null direct object. The occurrence of the null indirect object, however, has not been studied – but the high incidence of these elements in BP was raised in Dillinger et al. (1996). In this study, the authors also raise the question of the syntactic status of "complement" of the indirect object, following Dillinger (1991) and Perini (1989), who "highlight the difficulty of distinguishing (by structural operations) the indirect object (PP complement) from the prepositional adverbial adjunct "(Dillinger et al. 1996: 317) and consider the hypotheses that this traditional distinction is naturally non-syntactical.

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Author Biography

Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Possui Graduação em Letras Anglo Portuguesa pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina, UEL(1978);Especialização em Especialização Em Língua e Literatura Inglesa pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina, UEL (1980); Mestrado em M A In Linguistics pela University of Iowa, U.I, Estados Unidos (1986) e Doutorado em Lingüística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP (1994).  

Published

1998-07-15

How to Cite

CYRINO, S. M. L. The Null Indirect Object In Brazilian Portuguese. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 35–54, 1998. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.1998v1n1p35. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4480. Acesso em: 21 may. 2024.