Number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese

8 Março 2016, 10:00 • Fernando Jorge da Costa de Brissos

1. Subject-verb agreement. Linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that interfere with verb agreement.

2. Nominal agreement. Variation concerning overt plurality within noun phrases: explicit plurality of the noun head; overt number agreement of determiners, quantifiers and modifiers. Linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that interfere with nominal agreement.