Proclisis in infinitive preposicionadas sentences in BP

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2016v17n1p43

We present in this paper a formal analysis of the placement of clitics in infini­tive prepositional sentences in Brazilian Portuguese. The analysis is based on the work of Sena Pereira (2015), which discusses the placement of clitics in this context in the Bra­zilian writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our proposal is that prepositions occupying the core of CP motivate changes in the values attributed to phi features and strong V features in functional categories COMP, Tense and Person in Brazilian Portu­guese. We argue that, in such configuration, proclisis in Brazilian Portuguese is derived from verbal movement to the functional category Tense where the combination of [+V] and [+AGR] features are present.