Nomes simples sujeitos pré-verbais

Research on Bare Noun Phrases (BNs) is focused English and have Carlson (1977) as its origin: the readings (generic or existential) of these nouns depend type predicate they occur with (Kind-, Individual- Stage-level).Most authors use Determiner Phrase, including number information, key to BNs may get. The D position contains non-checked features which, in European Portuguese (EP), are not checked by Noun-raising D.According Oliveira & Cunha (2003), Kind EP crucially presence a definite determiner. Thus, Nouns can never be assigned generic readings.Pre-verbal Subject BNs, though, Kind- Individual-level predicates characterizing sentences – categorical judgements getting non-existential reading being marked topics. But also occur, an existential reading, where discourse sub-topics descriptive contexts, like ‘scripts’, Fillmore’s (1985) sense.The survival pre-verbal depends combination both Aktionsart values types which occur. [+habitual] feature determines possibility movement subject BN (Spec, TP or, I suggest, TopP) position. This non-argumental thus escapes government asymmetric c-command verb preposition constraint, allowing for noun. empty legitimated TopP, namely ‘aboutness’ (Reinhart 1981). They part ‘common ground management’ (Bianchi Frascarelli 2010). ‘aboutness topics’ ‘contrast (Büring 1999), root-sentences epistemic subordinates.The availability activity parallelism effect: Objects facilitate when occurring predicate. topicalization construction, described Duarte (1987, 1996), corresponds syntactic behavior reading.In ‘script’ (Fillmore 1985), i.e., information resulting from stereotype situation. According Abbot et al. (1985), ‘scripts’ structured hierarchy. Lower levels partonomy relation higher levels. explicit implicit situation allows inclusion low-level inferred. get reconstructed post-verbal thetic judgements. makes them prominent their Spec, allowed accumulation events states logical connection there no lexical connector. paratactic follows meaning hierarchic created ‘script’. In cases, co-occur Indicative Present, it does [+gnomic]/ feature.