Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions : : Issues on Brazilian Portuguese / / ed. by Simone Guesser, Ani Marchesan, Paulo Medeiros Junior.
Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system. Throughout these years, important contributions have been made on Brazilian Portuguese, es...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] 2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VI, 463 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Wh-Exclamatives
- Exclamatives: An overview
- On the role of IP-related functional categories in the derivation of wh-exclamatives
- "What a great paper!": A semantic analysis of wh-exclamatives with predicates of personal taste
- Copular exclamatives and gender agreement
- The perception of wh-exclamatives, free small clauses, and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese
- Part II: Imperatives
- Imperative clauses
- The verbal imperative in Brazilian capitals: An analysis of data from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project
- Past imperatives
- Imperative sentences and their subjects
- Part III: Wh-questions
- A framework for the study of Romance wh-questions, with special reference to Italo-Romance
- Using semantic inferences to distinguish between free relative and embedded questions: An analysis of ambiguous embedded clauses
- The left-peripheral syntax of Brazilian Portuguese cadê
- Aspects of the development of wh-questions in child Brazilian Portuguese
- Wh-questions, intervention effects and beyond: An assessment of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking schoolchildren's linguistic abilities
- Subject index