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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006Edited by Danièle Torck and W. Leo Wetzels
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 303] 2009
► pp. 17–32
This paper characterizes the occurrence of the pronoun você ‘you’ in Brazilian Portuguese existential clauses as an instance of an indeterminate pronoun, arguing against the idea that it corresponds to an expletive. I present some evidence that você is not directly merged in [Spec,TP], but in a thematic position within a locative predicate that is part of the existential coda