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Language Variation and Change, 2019
Some Portuguese verbs have two past participle forms- one regular, stem + -do, and the other irre... more Some Portuguese verbs have two past participle forms- one regular, stem + -do, and the other irregular, often identical to the 1SG present indicative. Per grammars, perfect auxiliaries ter/haver take regulars, irregulars appear with passive/adjectival ser/estar. To test these claims, we analyzed naturally-occurring data from Brazil (20th century) and Portugal (19th and 20th). We coded 1077 tokens from 21 verbs for ten predictors and performed mixed-effects logistic regressions in R. Irregulars appear with ter/haver 54% overall and in 68% of cases from Portugal. Our results demonstrate that past participle choice is determined by the interaction of several linguistic factors. Lexical verb is the most significant predictor of participle selection; verbs with irregular participles identical to 1SG occur in the irregular significantly more than other verbs. We conclude that the “doctrine of form-function symmetry” (cf. Poplack et al. 2013) for Portuguese participle choice as proclaimed in grammars is empirically indefensible.
Language Variation and Change, 2019
Some Portuguese verbs have two past participle forms- one regular, stem + -do, and the other irre... more Some Portuguese verbs have two past participle forms- one regular, stem + -do, and the other irregular, often identical to the 1SG present indicative. Per grammars, perfect auxiliaries ter/haver take regulars, irregulars appear with passive/adjectival ser/estar. To test these claims, we analyzed naturally-occurring data from Brazil (20th century) and Portugal (19th and 20th). We coded 1077 tokens from 21 verbs for ten predictors and performed mixed-effects logistic regressions in R. Irregulars appear with ter/haver 54% overall and in 68% of cases from Portugal. Our results demonstrate that past participle choice is determined by the interaction of several linguistic factors. Lexical verb is the most significant predictor of participle selection; verbs with irregular participles identical to 1SG occur in the irregular significantly more than other verbs. We conclude that the “doctrine of form-function symmetry” (cf. Poplack et al. 2013) for Portuguese participle choice as proclaimed in grammars is empirically indefensible.