Word order in exclamatives with demonstratives in European Portuguese

Authors

  • Joana Carvalho Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP) / Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto (CLUP)
  • Ana Maria Brito Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP) / Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto (CLUP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln2ano2016a5

Keywords:

wh-exclamative, demonstratives, degree phrase, determiner phrase, predicative sentences,, ellipsis

Abstract

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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Published

2016-10-31

How to Cite

Joana Carvalho, & Brito, A. M. (2016). Word order in exclamatives with demonstratives in European Portuguese. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (2), 97–115. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln2ano2016a5

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No. 2 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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