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Resumo: Hankamer and Sag (1976) argue for a distinction between deep and surface anaphora. Their conclusions were challenged by Williams (1977) who presents arguments against this distinction.

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  • Hankamer and Sag (1976) argue for a distinction between deep and surface anaphora

  • Ln this paper, I will present some facts from Brazilian Portuguese that I believe will challenge the distinction between deep.andsurface anaphora

  • According to the first criterion, this must be a case of surface anaphora, since there is deletion of the noun

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Hankamer and Sag (1976) argue for a distinction between deep and surface anaphora. Their conclusions were challenged by Williams (1977) who presents arguments against this distinction. Sag (1979) summarizes four conclusions of his previous paper as such:. A determiner can occur without a noun, as in (2): (2) João escolheu este livro, eu quero aquele.

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