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Word order in exclamatives with demonstratives in European Portuguese
| Resumo: | This paper focuses on the study of the syntactic position filled by the demonstrative determiner (este, esse, aquele) in nominal wh- exclamative sentences in European Portuguese (EP) like ‘Que menina esta!’. We draw on works on Spanish and Catalan (Castroviejo Miró 2006 a,b; Alonso Cortés 1999) and develop a hypothesis capable of explaining why the demonstrative in EP can occupy such a position, which apparently is a post-nominal one. We defend the hypothesis that in this type of exclamative the post-nominal position of the demonstrative is the result of an elliptical predicative clause. In order to understand the position of the demonstrative, we also analyse the structures of wh-exclamatives, of predicative clauses and of degree phrases. |
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| Autores principais: | Joana Carvalho |
| Outros Autores: | Brito, Ana Maria |
| Assunto: | exclamativas-Q demonstrativos sintagma grau sintagma determinante frases predicativas elipse wh-exclamative demonstratives degree phrase determiner phrase predicative sentences, ellipsis |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Instituição associada: | Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Resumo: | This paper focuses on the study of the syntactic position filled by the demonstrative determiner (este, esse, aquele) in nominal wh- exclamative sentences in European Portuguese (EP) like ‘Que menina esta!’. We draw on works on Spanish and Catalan (Castroviejo Miró 2006 a,b; Alonso Cortés 1999) and develop a hypothesis capable of explaining why the demonstrative in EP can occupy such a position, which apparently is a post-nominal one. We defend the hypothesis that in this type of exclamative the post-nominal position of the demonstrative is the result of an elliptical predicative clause. In order to understand the position of the demonstrative, we also analyse the structures of wh-exclamatives, of predicative clauses and of degree phrases. |
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