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Artigos • DELTA 34 (2) • Apr-Jun 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-445032745230457844 linkcopy

Open-access The relationship between Voice and the clitic SE in Brazilian Portuguese

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    ABSTRACT

    In this text, I study three constructions that have changed in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), namely anticausatives, as in (1) The plate (se) broke; middles, as in (2) These clothes (se) wash easily; and impersonals, as in (3) In this place (se) sell boots. These constructions were obligatorily marked with the clitic SE in previous centuries. I argue that the structural changes in these events have a common source: the loss of the clitic SE which is the nucleus of a specific Voice projection.

    Key-words: clitic SE; Voice projection; Brazilian Portuguese

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