The alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative*

Matos, Gabriela; Brito, Ana Maria

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“…have.1SG thət humiliate.INF the enemy "We have to humiliate the enemy" (E.Pg., O Jornal Económico, 11 May 2017) 5 Note, however, that, historically, Portuguese had a specialised evidential complementiser ca (<Lat. QU(I)A), which is attested exclusively with indicative clauses (Corr, 2016), and that the generalised complementiser que could introduce clause types other than declaratives (Suñer, 1999;Matos and Brito, 2013) Multiple complementisers across Romance with distinct morphological forms, semantico-pragmatic specifications (e.g. modality) or conditions (e.g.…”

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‘Exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish

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2018

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The use of the Ibero-Romance complementiser que in non-embedded contexts with various illocutionary functions is argued to be non-trivially distinct from its canonical function as a marker of subordination. Interpretative and grammatical differences, and variation in the availability and clause-typing of non-embedded ‘exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary que across Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish provide evidence that the subordinating complementiser has been repurposed for the representation of pragmatic information in the complementiser systems of Ibero-Romance, a hypothesis supported by analogies drawn between illocutionary que and illocutionary functions of the interrogative complementiser si/se in Catalan and European Portuguese.

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‘Exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish

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“…Para o português, veja-se Brito (1991), Brito & Duarte (2003), Móia (1996), Veloso 2013 Pelo contrário, as interrogativas subordinadas não admitem tipicamente paráfrases com relativas com antecedentecf. (1b), (2b) vs. (10): 6 6 Como referido em Peres & Móia (1995: 92) e em Matos & Brito (2013), para o português, certos predicados de inquirição e de desconhecimento, que podem ser formados pelo verbo e as unidades que o modificam, nomeadamente o marcador de negação frásica, como não saber em (ii) , podem ser seguidos de DPs (i) ou de DPs seguidos de relativas restritivas (ii):…”

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“…(vi) O Luís sabe o caminho que deve tomar. Para uma discussão alargada destas construções e uma apresentação das propriedades que lexical e sintaticamente as afastam das "concealed questions" veja-se Matos & Brito (2013 (iv) As interrogativas parciais subordinadas são selecionadas por predicados que aceitam tipicamente argumentos oracionais: a) predicados superiores de inquirição: perguntar( -se), inquirir, querer saber; … b) predicados superiores de desconhecimento: ignorar, desconhecer, não saber,… c) predicados de dizer e de perceção (e.g. dizer, admitir, ver, ouvir) sob o escopo de um elemento negativo, ou sob o escopo de um operador de interrogação:…”

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“…Existem casos que não se enquadram nas relativas livres nem nas interrogativas parciais subordinadas que temos vindo a apresentar; trata-se de construções que têm sido designados na literatura como falsas interrogativas ou interrogativas impróprias. Tais construções foram atestadas para o espanhol desde o início dos anos 90 (Suñer1991, 1993(Suñer1991, , 1999 e, como mostraram Matos & Brito (2013), ocorrem também no português europeu. Como o exemplo em (22a) mostra, as interrogativas impróprias são tipicamente ilustradas com constituintes-wh com núcleo nominal realizado, i.e.…”

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“…Porém, desde há muito tem sido salientado que, para lá das semelhanças, há também diferenças de interpretação e estruturais que distinguem estas construções. No quadro da gramática generativa, vejam-se, por exemplo Brito (1991), Brito & Duarte (2003), Móia (1996), Veloso (2013), Matos & Brito (2013), Mioto & Lobo (2016).…”

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In this paper we analyse parallelisms and differences between free relatives, true embedded wh interrogatives, and improper embedded wh interrogatives. While free relatives are DPs which contain a CP, embedded wh interrogatives, both true and improper interrogatives, are CPs. In the last years and in the framework of the Minimalist Program, this different categorial nature has been deduced from formal labelling conditions, mainly related to the nature of head or maximal projection of the moved wh constituent. In this paper, while not rejecting the importance of the difference between head and maximal projection of the wh constituent, we show that the DP or CP nature of the embedded constituent and its [+int] or [+decl] status must be sanctioned by the selection requirements of the matrix predicate.

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The alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative*

Cited by 15 publications

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‘Exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish

‘Exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish

Relativas livres e interrogativas parciais: paralelos e diferenças

The Grammar of the Utterance

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