
Title:
Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions : Issues on Brazilian Portuguese
Author:
Augusto, Marina R. A., contributor.
ISBN:
9783111183176
Physical Description:
1 online resource (VI, 463 p.)
Series:
LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA , 6
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
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