Some Considerations about Verbal Alternation in the Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v45i2.718Keywords:
language acquisition, verbal alternation, anticausatives, unaccusatives, Brazilian Portuguese.Abstract
This paper discusses the causative-inchoative alternation in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese by examining data that contain childrens’ spontaneous production. The starting point of this article is that it is possible to identify an implicit causer in anti-causatives, which is not possible in unaccusatives. This fact reveals that there are different structures for these constructions. The hypothesis for this study is that children is able to perceive the difference between anticausative and unaccusative structures in the language acquisition process.
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