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This paper focuses on Portuguese adjetival constructions akin to English contructions with -movement — e.g., ‘this problem is tough to solve’. In standard European and Brazilian Portuguese, the infinitival clause tipically contains a transitive verb, and no explicit external argument. However, some other — poorly studied, and arguably non-canonical — variants of these constructions occur in corpora of newspaper writing of both European and Brazilian Portuguese. These will be the focus of this paper. Three variants will be assessed: constructions with explicit external arguments; constructions with clear subject raising (of external arguments, or internal arguments of unaccusative verbs); (non--)constructions with unmotivated insertion of the preposition ‘to’. All in all, it is possible to conclude that Portuguese adjectival constructions with -movement are prone to substantial language variation and are occasionally affected by linguistic anomaly, even in relatively formal written registers.

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Keywords: linguistic anomaly ; prepositioned infinitival clauses ; passive constructions ; language variation ; raising adjectives ; tough-movement

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