ConSOLE 23 2015 • University Paris Diderot-Paris 7

A recipe on how to save a derivation. The Locative Impersonal in Brazilian Portuguese

Janayna Carvalho

Universidade de São Paulo

janaynacarvalho@usp.br

Abstract

In this paper, I examine a type of impersonal sentence in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in which an arbitrary participant reading is present in spite of the absence of impersonal morphology. Given the fact that a locative expression is always present, I term these sentences locative impersonals. In contrast to previous analyses that treated the locative element as an adjunct, I claim that the locative is the external argument in BP locative impersonals. This assumption allows us to relate locative impersonals to a change in the features of INFL in BP.

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Janayna Carvalho (2015). a recipe on how to save a derivation. the locative impersonal in brazilian portuguese. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 23, edited by Kate Bellamy, Elena Karvovskaya, Martin Kohlberger, George Saad, (pp. 114-134).

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@inproceedings{carvalho-locative-impersonal-2015, title={A recipe on how to save a derivation. The Locative Impersonal in Brazilian Portuguese}, author={Janayna Carvalho}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 23}, year={2015}, pages={114-134}, editor={Kate Bellamy and Elena Karvovskaya and Martin Kohlberger and George Saad} }

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