@article{Kato_Duarte_2021, title={Prosodic determinants in syntactic change}, volume={2}, url={https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/350}, DOI={10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id350}, abstractNote={<p>This paper reports a trajectory of studies carried out by the authors about a change in Brazilian Portuguese (PB) related to the Null Subject Parameter. When free inversion was included among the properties associated with this Parameter, our research showed that romance inversion, or inversion of the predicate in BP, was a prosodic rule, apparently independent of the loss of null subjects. Although it became more restricted in BP, VS was still possible, particularly when a pre-verbal deictic or locative element appeared in first position. Assuming that null referential subjects were a consequence of ellipsis of the referential pronoun, we observed that such an ellipsis was also favored by the presence of some light element in first position. We propose, in conclusion, that the partial occurrence of null subjects in BP can be explained in terms of a prosodic demand, which rejects a V1 sentential pattern, non-existent in the 19th century BP. Our proposal is that, in the interface with PF, languages have filters related to their rhythm. In order to account for the preference for certain forms in the present stage of the change in course in BP, a condition such as “Avoid V1” is being proposed here.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Cadernos de Linguística}, author={Kato, Mary Aizawa and Duarte, Maria Eugenia Lammoglia}, year={2021}, month={May}, pages={e350} }