Geometria de traços e a sintaxe de pronomes no português brasileiro Danniel Carvalho

This paper discusses how the wide use of pronominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese is allowed by their internal compositionality. An enriched formal feature theory developed on the basis of feature entailment and underspecification to compose those pronouns is adopted, which solves the former problem of agreement between elements which differ from each other with relation to their set of features. This approach leads to a clearer description of the distribution of pronouns in BP strictly dependent on their inner structure, which considerably simplifies the description of agreement in such language.