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The traditionally called "nominative forms" of pronouns are also oblique representatives without any marginality in its acceptance in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). There is no univocal correspondence between a pronominal form and a unique casual function, as expected in European Portuguese (EP). We also argue, in this work, the plural first-person pronouns integrate the vernacular system of BP pronouns and do not compete with each other. Based on the assumptions of the Generative Theory, we argue that the grammatical change, related to the opposition of a system composed by six grammatical persons toward an opposition of first and third person singular, has as consequence a change in the grammatical features of the pronouns that are no longer marked as nominative in the lexicon; so, the Brazilian vernacular pronoun paradigm is characterized by a flexional paradigm and a concordance system distinct from EP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a set of four testimonies from Brazilian researchers who fell in love with Distributed Morphology after the publication of the inaugural article by Morris Halle and Alec Marantz, "Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection", in 1993. This theory proposes a new architecture of grammar that has a lot in common with syntax and little to do with traditional morphology - for example, the ancient lexicon is broken down into three different lists. Each of the contributors was invited to answer the following questions: (i) What is the feature of Distributed Morphology that leads you to prefer this version of generative grammar to ground your work?, (ii) What was the first subject you explored based on this theory?, (iii) Why does this model seem to you more interesting than the traditional generative one?, (iv) Which subjects did you encourage your students to explore in the past and which ones do you currently encourage? What are the interfaces of the grammar that are highlighted in each case?, (v) Which questions do you plan to explore in the near future? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]