Ordem de palavras em exclamativas com demonstrativos em Português Europeu

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2016

Authors

Carvalho, Joana (Author) Other; Brito, Ana Maria (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

No. 2

Pages: 97-115

Publisher: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Languages and Literature

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics

Other information

DOI: 10.21747/ 2183-9077/rapl2a5

Subject: Linguística portuguesa

Abstract (EN): 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.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific