Operação Agree e construções partitivas no português brasileiro e no português europeu.

Abstract

This study is according to Scientific Program of Generative Grammar, more specifically on minimalist assumptions of the Principle and Parameters Theory (CHOMSKY, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001) and try to describe and analyse the subject-verb agreement into partitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) grammars. The main aim is provid an explanation for the type of overt morphologically agreement verified in sentences like: (i). The most of students do-past. 3pl. the homework. The most of students did the homework . For that, this research proposes as central hypothesis the idea that operation Agree according to Béjar (2003, 2008) can satisfactorily explain the partial agreement in question, taking the pressupost idea on specification/underspecification of phi-features ÉJAR, 2003, 2008; CARVALHO, 2008), as well the approach in which agreement is understood as feature sharing, according to idea elaborated by Frampton & Gutmann (2000a). In this thesis, it were applied some tasks to BP and EP speakers, aiming to verify the acceptability of these speakers with relation to the partial agreement in partitive constructions. The tasks results point out that in some contexts, Brazilian speakers accept more easily partial agreement than Portuguese ones.