THE PARTIAL PRO-DROP NATURE AND THE RESTRICTED VS ORDER IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

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Null Subjects in European and Brazilian Portuguese (2005, background): “We compare the distribution of overt vs. null subject pronouns in European Portuguese (EP), a prototypical NSL (cf. Barbosa 1995, 2000), and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), a variety that has been shown to be losing the null subject property (cf. Duarte 1995, 2000; Kato 1999, 2000).”
Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: Evidence from near-native Italian (2007, background): “BP is known to have lost a productive null subject nature with referential pronominal subjects (Kato 2000, and the works collected in Kato and Negrão 2000).”
What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the L3 initial state (2010, background): “In Spanish and Italian the [–person] feature of T is checked via v to T movement, via [+person] verbal agreement morphology (Ordóñez and Treviño, 1999; Kato, 2000).”
Clitics and object expression in the L3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Structural similarity matters for transfer (2011, background): “b Internal variability in contemporary BP and diachronic change: In the last centuries, BP has been undergoing diachronic change in the subject and object pronominal system, a change that according to some researchers is related to the weakening of the verbal agreement paradigm (Cyrino, 1993; Pagott”