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This paper argues that weak object pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are best viewed as verbal morphology. However evidence also indicates that they can take wide scope over coordinated verbs, a property which entails that syntax can have access to the internal structure of words. To account for the mismatch between the morphological and syntactic properties of weak object pronouns in BP, we propose a mapping algorithm, formulated within LFG, that allows morphological sequences to be mapped onto more than one phrase-structure node.
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Luís, A.R. (2012). Weak Object Pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese: An LFG Analysis. In: Caseli, H., Villavicencio, A., Teixeira, A., Perdigão, F. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_16
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