Subject Omission and Functional Compensation: Evidence from Written Brazilian Portuguese.

Paredes Silva, Vera Lucia

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ERIC Number: EJ474480

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Publication Date: 1993

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Subject Omission and Functional Compensation: Evidence from Written Brazilian Portuguese.

Paredes Silva, Vera Lucia

Language Variation and Change, v5 n1 p35-49 1993

Evidence from a sample of informal written language (personal correspondence) shows that the most important constraints on pronoun usage in subject position are discourse-based. The quantitative analysis supports the hypothesis that pronoun usage is "functional" since semantically relevant information is preserved in surface structure. (Contains 16 references.) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence), Linguistic Theory, Portuguese, Pronouns, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Structural Linguistics, Uncommonly Taught Languages

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Language: English

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