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This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, with a special emphasis on the first-person singular, which exhibits severe syncretism in this language. This study is an investigation into the formative features of pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese and their relationship with the phenomenon of syncretism. Empirically, this book provides a description of the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, showing that the traditional phi-features used to construct a pronoun (person, number, gender, and case) are actually categories which encompass more elemental features which define the content and the shape of a pronoun. It shows that more elementary component structures of the person, number, gender and case categories are able to satisfactorily describe the pronoun system in Brazilian Portuguese, meaning that different pronouns (and their syntactic roles) may be described based on their inner composition. In terms of theory, this book defines which elementary formative features form a pronoun, how these features are composed, and what the syntactic consequences are.

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Danniel da Silva Carvalho completed his PhD in Linguistics in 2008, and is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Foundations for the Study of Languages at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. His research interests are phi-features and their intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic typology and syntax, as well as morphosyntax and its association with semantic structures. This research focuses on the pronominal system in Brazilian Portuguese.

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