This paper discusses the relationship between null subject and strong verbal inflection. The analysis of subject realization in a spoken European Portuguese language corpus shows that, although this relationship does exist, it is not necessary: (i) the percentage of realized subjects with sufficiently marked verbal inflection is significant; (ii) lack of subject-verb agreement negatively affects the use of null subject, especially when the pronoun form "a gente" (we) is employed, for it has three different verbal inflections (1st person plural, 3rd person singular, and 3rd person plural). Besides the substantial percentage of subject realization, there are occurrences - though not so expressive, but not less important - of lack of subject-verb agreement in utterances with subject-verb sentence structures, which contradicts usual variations in European Portuguese.
European Portuguese; Linguistic variation; Null and overt subjects; Verbal agreement
