Simplification or Complexification: Auxiliary Selection and Anti-agreement Effect in Brazilian Venetan

In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken southern Brazil. Venetan varieties display default form past participle constructions with postverbal subjects and fully agreeing preverbal subjects: is true both for homeland language, northern Italy, as well under analysis paper, A crucial difference emerges unaccusative constructions: while Italian uses same BE presence subjects, specialized agreement on participle, when are present. We argue that necessary resumption case lack agreement. The becomes, therefore, morphosyntactically more complex than non-heritage counterpart.